Sarah Drinkwater
@sarahdrinkwater
Knowledge beachcomber interested in the ownership economy, flourishing communities, ecosystem building, magic, and knowledge as an end to itself.
Sarah Drinkwater
This work is less about what was happening in the 2000s and more about what those early signals suggested about seemingly endless possibilities in the future. What was to come — even if we weren’t quite sure what that was — was a bigger deal than what had already happened.
Tim Hwang • Here Went Everybody
Go-to-Network: What It Is, and Why It’s the Future of Growth
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A go-to-network (GTN) strategy is a plan that details how an organization can grow and engage networks of potential customers in order to build connections and authentic relationships, and ultimately convince them to buy their product or service.
GTN will enable your company to grow faster and more efficiently by leveraging the power of your networks of employees, customers, fans, community members, and more.
The approach includes tactics related to product-led growth, community building, leveraging events, personal branding, and other forms of network building.
Modern growth strategies are all go-to-network
At their core, all these growth strategies have the same underlying philosophy. Implicitly or explicitly, they set out to foster deeper connections between the company and a specific network
Forget what they say—instead look at who they marry.
This is a sure-fire technique, and it tells you important things about people you can’t learn any other way. A person’s choice of a spouse—or if they aren’t married, their closest lifelong partner—is much more revealing than anything they say or do in public.
This choice tells you about their own
... See moretedgioia.substack.com • My 8 Best Techniques for Evaluating Character
How to run a small social network site for your friends
runyourown.social
My central contention is that late capitalism not only accelerates the flow of capital, but also accelerates the rate at which subjects assume identities. Identity formation is inextricably linked to the urge to consume, and therefore the acceleration of capitalism necessitates an increase in the rate at which individuals assume and shed... See more
Jonah Peretti • Negations: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
If it is true that the era of collective experimentation online was short lived, then the next interesting question is why. One hypothesis that I’m intrigued with is rooted less in technological changes and more in social ones. Shirky’s dictum that revolutions start from behavioral change rather than from technological change helps us also explain... See more
Tim Hwang • Here Went Everybody
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