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8. First order irrational, second order rational (h/t Chris Paik)

Go to a whiteboard and ask your team to visualize the holiday party for the upcoming year, then ask: what are you celebrating?

• Forces your team to work backward under the assumption that you’ve already won


• Brainstorming is much more productive from a place of certainty and confidence, rather than fear, doubt, and stress

It’s difficult now to remember how confusing computers, let alone the Internet, were for most users in the mid-90s. Even by 1997, only 35% of US households had a computer. For many of those early adopters, the value proposition of the Internet, most importantly email, was compelling, but ‘getting online’ was so time-consuming and complicated that i... See more

“My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn’t know they had.” — Edwin Land

This enables 'permissionless innovation' - anyone can build any new service (logic) or any new interface (app) on the same data layer.

Platforms such as MetaFactory and Zora are helping "consumer-creators" share in the profits from collectively-owned fashion houses and music labels.

Pipe is in the business of creating Business-Funding Fit. Its skills -- pulling in companies’ financial data via APIs, assigning ratings based on that data, attracting investors, providing liquidity, and managing seamless ongoing financial transactions -- will be extensible to many more subscription-based business models over time.