nicole

[5:45] Getting comfortable with not accomplishing tasks and using a calendar more as an inspiration and a guide as to what I want to spend my life with tends to be really, really helpful, and I found that going from not putting things in my calendar if I'm afraid I won't complete them because it will really bother me, to actually putting them in my... See more

[6:50] The PR Rule

The main reason we don’t create more affordances, however, is pure egocentrism. When we just say whatever pops into our heads, we may think we’re making craggy, climbable conversational rock walls, when in fact we’re creating completely frictionless surfaces. For example, I’m thrilled to tell you about the 126 escape rooms I’ve done, but my love fo... See more

Even with the short films, but especially with Toy Story, they embraced the limitations of the medium and yet delivered a full solution with it, you know, they didn’t skim on emotional connections within their movies. Even when the technology was arguably inferior to both live action and traditional animation, they were able to deliver incredible e... See more

The challenge then becomes raise enough money and keep morale high enough for long enough so that you actually have the time to make it work. Hence the job of the CEO – the momentum creator.

When done well, both giving and taking create what psychologists call affordances: features of the environment that allow you to do something. Physical affordances are things like stairs and handles and benches. Conversational affordances are things like digressions and confessions and bold claims that beg for a rejoinder. What matters most, then, ... See more

One of the unusual things about my book is I've always tried to be very careful to make sure that everything maps back to value. So if you said what is the fundamental assumption of this book, it's that strategy and value are mathematically – they’re duals. And so the mapping function from that desire to join the site versus actually being able to ... See more

[10:26] The Fun Factor

(Curator's comment: This is referring to YouTube’s decision to offer YouTube Red, a subscription service for ad-free experience.) They’re getting their highest value users, which are the people that the advertisers actually want to reach to not see the ads and to do brand advertising you need enormous scale, I mean Facebook and YouTube are the only... See more

Didi does something that I suspect even Travis and Uber, as Machiavellian as they are in the US, couldn’t even imagine and see it coming. Didi starts investing in all of Uber’s rivals around the world including Lyft in the US and Ola in India and Grab Taxi in Southeast Asia, and they announced that they’re going to literally, it's like the allies f... See more