Leo Guinan

Many people who don’t survive the Beowulf arc

We are always telling stories, whether we realize it or not. We might as well get good at it. Good stories win people over. They provoke and inspire and inflame the human spirit. It’s a tremendous source of power.

I could write an entire blog post on this point alone. In fact, I did earlier this year! I truly believe that obsessing over design is one of the two most common traits I see among successful creators.

The faster the experimentation cycles, the faster the learning, the more of an advantage you have over established people and companies.

That means there are three main components to identify when looking at a system: the people, the interaction (i.e. the sharing of information), and the shared context (i.e. what that group of people have in common).

Discipline is what the factory and the office and the store share with the prison and the school and the mental hospital.

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

“The best way to be superhuman is to do things that you love with other people who love them, too.” - Cory Doctorow, Walkaway