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But for the things you care about most, or are causing you the most suffering, there is probably a nonlinear strategy that you will miss if you pay too close attention to the linear strategy you current have or that people recommend.

Data Network Effects, 6 Elements

The biggest fear of independent consultants when specializing is not just that it will narrow your options - but that will take you down a path you already know.

Now that we have the Internet and better ways of creating trust with people outside of an organization, it should be possible to make it faster/better/cheaper for nodes inside a corporation to link with outside nodes to complete certain tasks. 

So to the question of right relationship, I think my heart's yearning is to bless that is to acknowledge that yearning, that desire for a different relationship that is not supported by our modern suburban arrangements but also to caution that sometimes in our quest to go back, we actually re-entrench, or reinforce and reinscribe the modern. It’s... See more

What's needed here is like a kind of atemporality that's like agnosticism. Just a calm, pragmatic, serene skepticism about the historical narratives.

Transparency and data provide ruthless meritocracy.

In practice, most of the valuable insights you will glean from a scaled-up dataset in a particular domain will come early on. More data just confirms those insights. Further, the number of insights that will matter enough for customers to pay you or choose you over other providers is typically small. So data scale can give you these early 1-3 key... See more

On Monetizing Individuality