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Human scale institutions strive for optimum scale. Not mega scale. The point at which maximum quality can be attained. Their purpose is not to maximize profitability. It is to maximize well-being. Whose? Everyone’s. 

The 2010s were all about changing how people viewed work. Let’s think about what this does to the 2020s. My view of it is because so often people don’t want to be full-time hires, it means that businesses need to figure out how to integrate this flexible talent into their workflows. This is to me what this decade is going to be all about.

Is the task easily definable, and how can you determine whether it has been done or not?

A company has Business Model leverage when — after reaching some degree of scale — its core business sets it up extremely well to grow into higher gross margin adjacencies with market opportunities large enough to meaningfully impact the broader business.

An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind, a mind that is watching, learning, studying. Which means what? That there is intelligence only when there is no fear, when you are willing to rebel, to go against the whole social structure in order to find out what God is, or to discover the truth of anything.

As I've written about my own experience on Patreon, it's difficult to grow a membership page from scratch without cultivating a larger, already-existing audience elsewhere. This makes the model especially difficult for a young or emerging artist who just put up their first EP on streaming services; in these cases, a less committal Kickstarter-type... See more