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Let me phrase what I’ve been saying in this essay in a slightly different way. What you want to create is a distributed apprenticeship in the art of being you. You want to assemble a set of influences you can observe and imitate, and peers and mentors that can give you feedback on how well you converge with that model of yourself.

Put another way, what’s the most powerful force on earth? In the 1800s, God. In the 1900s, the US military. And by the mid-2000s, encryption.

As you consider the who and what, ask yourself:

• Could you draw a picture of the exact person, or a few people, who you want to see/support/read/go to your thing?


• Where do they live, and how old are they?


• What do they do for work or fun?


• Perhaps most importantly, what do they read/watch/listen to, and where do they go for their new

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In Hyperstructures, any participant's value captured is synonymous with their value generated. The inverse is also true, if any third party or entity has the ability to freely extract value from the system without value creation then the system then it is not a hyperstructure.

The key problem we're solving is that there's so much great podcast content locked up in a two-hour-long MP3 file. How do you make the format more consumable, more discoverable? You do that by transforming it into an easier format. A short one-minute video clip is easier to consume and then discuss, versus sending a two-hour long podcast recommenda... See more

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A good change leader never thinks, “Why are these people acting so badly? They must be bad people.” A change leader thinks, “How can I set up a situation that brings out the good in these people?