Leo Guinan
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Leo Guinan
A PM I once worked with was struggling to persuade somebody of something. I told him to ask them the question, “What data would I have to show you to get you to change your mind?” If they didn’t have a clear answer, then he would know this was an idea they held on faith, a bit like a religious belief. No amount of data can sway a person from their... See more
Deb Liu • Changing Your Mind
Faith requires less energy than change
Creation is a messy process. You don't know how long it's gonna take. You don't know exactly what it's gonna look like in the end. All you know is that there's something ahead of you in the fog that you're grasping at.
Claude
Build In Public University and Thinking Through Things Thursday
The messiness of creation is real.
When a Collective joins a Fiscal Host, they get a clear service: we'll hold your money, you don't have to go get a bank account and form your own legal entity, we're going to take care of some really annoying paperwork stuff for you, and we'll give you this nice online tool that lets you share your budget transparently and pay your expenses. On the... See more
Divya Siddarth • Building Capacity for Exit to Community
Abundant System Example
The danger is in misdiagnosing which type of business you're building. I’ve seen this a few times with online courses or “creator businesses” in particular. Someone launches a course that prints money, then tries turning it into a "real business" by hiring a team and scaling up. But they hit a ceiling on what the course can earn despite the... See more
Nat Eliason • Fast Cash vs. Slow Equity
This is a giant risk in creator businesses that needs to be noted
Reset or decay status indicators: One aggressive measure to battle status concentrations is to have every status indicator decay over time – a deflationary measure for your status indicators.For example, karma that decays the more you stay away from the network or losing followers over time (especially if you have gained a lot of followers from... See more
Sriram Krishnan • Status Traps: Learning from Web2 Social Networks - a16z crypto
Instead of competing in the algorithmic feeds, create the content that is the most uniquely yours. Create the content you are interested in creating. Share your story. Share what is uniquely you. Fuck the algorithm.
Leo Guinan • The Build In Public Manifesto
The Problem With Measuring The Outcomes of Systems
Down with the algorithm
Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work. Free time is a euphemism for the peculiar way labor, as a factor of production, not only transports itself at its own expense to and from the workplace, but assumes primary responsibility for its own maintenance and repair.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Getting found is about being findable.
Tina Mai • Kernel | Chaos Theory
Takes less energy to be found if you are findable. Less energy it takes, more likely to happen.