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Drive distribution to your customers by helping them generate new business that wouldn’t have been accessible otherwise (net new business).

You can kind of imagine the world getting split into two: jobs that have a very clear set of next steps—working in the military, or working at Starbucks, or working as a manager in a large company, clear jobs—and then you got opaque jobs. And I think starting a company is an incredibly opaque job—it's very unclear what to do next. It's very unclear... See more

However, a Practical Creator doesn’t find comfort in that. Because when you’re starting out, by definition, you have no audience. Crowdsourcing only works if there’s a crowd that cares in the first place, which is a luxury that’s not afforded to you in the beginning. That’s why in the first stage of the arc, you need to focus on building wealth.

Despite the popularity of analogies comparing social networks to casinos, the best metaphor for our current cultural anomie, or at least the part that’s shaped by the internet, may be the shopping mall. A core principle of 20th-century mall design, which has since spread to a much wider variety of spaces, was a type of environmentally-induced diso

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Liquid Super Teams are powerful because they increase talent density by lowering the commitment required of each participant. People who would never work for another person again happily join Liquid Super Teams from time to time.

Email and productivity would still remain separate workflows, but Superhuman would become the center of gravity from which all other tools are being managed.

Newspaper reporters call this a “morgue file”—I like that name even better. Your morgue file is where you keep the dead things that you’ll later reanimate in your work.