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Looking back, there were over 100,000 people in the 2010 census with bachelor's degrees who became janitors. And there were over 5000 with master's degrees who became janitors.

I see this as the delineation between IRL Clubs 1.0 and IRL Clubs 2.0. In order to be venture backable, the new generation will have to take advantage of the points discussed in 1-4 and leverage its technology, community, and brand to scale beyond its four walls.

It’s one thing to predict how technology changes, but quite another to predict how it changes us.

For everyone to have the opportunity to be involved in a given group and to participate in its activities the structure must be explicit, not implicit. The rules of decision-making must be open and available to everyone, and this can happen only if they are formalized. This is not to say that formalization of a structure of a group will destroy the... See more

We are all playing the status game and there’s no way out of it. Understand human nature, live with it, prosper, and succeed.

Warby Parker, Casper, and Bonobos led a wave of sweeping disruption for consumer brands in the early 2010s. There’s an exciting new brand for every product category from toothpaste to air conditioners.

Besides – people are more apt to remember your successes, not your failures

A friend of mine recently felt dizzy and went to a US urgent care facility for blood tests. They were inconclusive and so he was sent to the nearby emergency room, which proceeded to do the same blood tests over again, because they were not able to access the urgent care facility's test results in their computer system. This was just plain wasted... See more