Rosano / Journal

3 entries for Thursday, June 17, 2021

Understanding Women: Female Rivalry

[Women try to select for the best male and keep them within their group.]

[Women tend to group themselves into similar levels of attractiveness.]

[Every baby has cried and been scared of being abandoned.]

[We're hard-wired to avoid rejection and abandonment because it's directly linked to our survival.]

[The tool obsession for women is more about specific techniques to accentuate attractiveness.]

[The beauty industry invents flaws to keep women spending money.]

Rivalry is pretty good for engagement (don’t tell zuck)

[Zoom self-view makes you tired faster because it's not normal for you to talk at length in front of a mirror with other people.]

[Zoom self-view affects women because they focus on where everyone's eyes might be focused.]

[Be loving and accepting, and undo any false sense of scarcity that has been created.]

App Store Arguments

In this world you don’t need 1,000 true fans to make a living; you need 1,786 — 536 fans to pay Apple, 253 fans to pay Twitter, and only then the 1,000 that make it possible to create something new. It is inevitable that some number of businesses never get started, because of this deadweight loss.

[Apple strategically launched on 2nd or 3rd tier carriers to maximize their control over the experience, and then used the leverage from market dominance to force larger carriers to accept.]

Civic LARPing

[Create opportunities for live-action role-playing by 1) presenting challenges and 2) maintaining a broader audience that witnesses it all.]