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I realized—many years ago—that when I behave generously, I feel rich. I like to feel rich. So I choose to be generous.
Alexandra Franzen • 50 Ways to Be Ridiculously Generous—and Feel Ridiculously Good.
Something to try the next time you’re considering a product or a service: spend a little time thinking about the motive behind it. It’s something that’s easy to skip entirely, especially when we’re busy evaluating a thing by its far more obvious and surface-level criteria. But motive is really important, and I think it can be an effective filter... See more
Neatnik Notes · Motive as a filter
my motive is simple: build the tool and community I wish I had. build something that is meaningful for the people it serves and allows my team and I to make a good living.
Referral is one of the primary currencies of communities. It’s a deeper level of advocacy in which members are so bought into your community and product that they’re willing to put their own reputation on the line and refer it to others.
Patrick Woods • How to Drive Business Growth By Fostering Your Community
Fans will no longer be passive consumers. The biggest fans will be part of the creation process.
Maria Shen • Five New Frontiers for NFTs
Creative endeavors are inspiring because the scope of the problem often feels bigger than your capacity to solve it. But because you find that problem so worthwhile, you’re willing to put in the effort required to provide the best solution possible. Through this process, you become a more capable person, which allows you to address more worthwhile... See more
Lawrence Yeo • The Arc of the Practical Creator
A company can become incredibly successful if it can find a way to own a word in the mind of the prospect. Not a complicated word. Not an invented one. The simple words are best, words taken right out of the dictionary. This is the law of focus. You “burn” your way into the mind by narrowing the focus to a single word or concept. It’s the ultimate... See more
Al Ries • The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk!
Yet there’s a fundamental tension between drop culture and digital music itself. As I've written about in the past, artificial scarcity could not be more antithetical to how the streaming economy works today, because we expect digital music to be as close to free and ubiquitous as possible — i.e. the opposite of scarce.
Cherie Hu • Digital music’s new drop culture
The web’s first era was about information flowing freely—think Google giving you access to the world’s knowledge. Most of us were passive consumers in this era. The second era was the social web—Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. People began to create their own content, and that content became the lifeblood of the big platforms. We became active... See more