254 entries under "talk"

The Age of Community: Building, Growing and Changing the World

[Each person nominates the next person to introduce themselves, distribute the responsibility of delegating.]

[Sometimes things happen through second and third-order effects and you need to simply turn your back on the main thing.]

[An interest community can also be a place to make friends.]

[A community never dies because the principles that led to its coming together are still in play.]

[Empower and showcase.]

[Some domains like pottery still take time and do not change as technical paradigms accelerate. Email was slow but now is fast whereas making a pot takes days.]

[This is your community, take charge of it.]

[Suggest one project that inspires you.]

[Low hanging fruit can be industries that don't engage with people that are like you.]

John Collison – Growing the Internet Economy

[Products that succeed in the United States are not the same as those that succeed in other countries. The local customs in Indonesia, or even in the UK, can necessitate a different approach.]

The Art of Productive Disagreement

[Being civil, skirting around difficult topics isn't enough.]

[Disagreement is rarely about facts, but about values.]

[Seeing what happens, making a prediction and then wait, implies there's nothing to argue about. Everyone learns something. It's a way of creating rituals.]

[Celebrate cognitive dissonance from being wrong because it's a sign of learning.]

[In new spaces, ask what is nobody allowed to talk about. The closer it is to the surface, the more taboo it might be.]

[Put the facts aside: what does each party want? what do they think is going to happen? How much is it going to change the future? Let's check back in a month, no rush to solve this, we'll still be friends, it's about our relationship.]

[Biases are functional and everyone needs them to survive.]

James Baldwin - The Struggle of The Artist (1969)

[If artists struggle while also having their work, it must be impossible for those who do not have the outlet.]

Building real bonds amongst diverse groups of strangers

[Get everyone to send a fun fact about themselves. Give everyone someone else's fact. Ask them to find their person.]

Infinite Loops

[Create a world that people want to come into and explore without you being there.]

[Worlds provide challenges for people and communicate what the next step is.]

[Challenges that you embrace and overcome can help create an identity.]

Sparks Between Us: Step Into The Comfort Inn

[Intimate when a performer is so absorbed in their own experience that they forget about their surroundings, the audience becomes observers.]

[I adore you.]

[I love everyone by default.]

Toastmasters: Still thriving 100 years into its history

[The first meeting is free.]

[Newer people helped by more seasoned people to create mentir relationships.]

[Toastmasters are interested in self-improvement while also carrying other people with them.]

[It's popular in Asia because people want to practice their English.]

[Making it fun is more important than the educational aspect.]

[There's always room in the front row, most people avoid it and lurk from the back.]

[Nobody gets paid, but they gain experience that creates dividends in other aspects.]

[People shy about lacking experience are prime candidates for growth by practicing leadership.]

Bring your own client with Geoffrey Litt

[Despite having invented an infinitely flexible medium, we've all settled on small groups of people making something and throwing it over a wall for the others to use.]

[The secondary market of module providers is often more important than end-user programming possibilities itself.]

Designing our way out of this mess

[People with this knowledge are not in front of computers most of the day, so what is available does not reflect the knowledge.]

Let's talk about baby bonds and generational wealth....

[Americans always do the right thing, after they've tried everything else.]

[When the moral argument fails, appeal to economics: it's generally cheaper to be a good person.]

Home on the Internet

[Twitter enables direct exchange between thoughts, independent of the people.]

[Twitter and TikTok enable content threads.]

[When me and the person I know are conversing on twitter, the third person that doesn't know is is watching. A performance for our shared mutuals.]

[We went from an oral culture where everything disappears, to a written culture, and now as text is less necessary we are moving toward an oral culture where everything is permanent.]

[People LARPing doing their day job in the real world to earn the money that enables them to participate in their imagined world, like Burning Man.]

[People pretending that they want things in public because they think other people want them is the source of many problems.]

[Lying is more cognitively demanding, you actually burn more sugar.]

[Every child is like a traveller arriving from somewhere else.]

[How to encourage a group to feel the camaraderie of 'we did it'?]

How to LEARN ANY LANGUAGE on Your Own (Fast!)

[Walk around with the target language playing and try to repeat back phrases that you hear.]

LOGIC SESSION BREAKDOWN: "Moon River"

[I like to have a chord planned and then add as many notes to it as possible until it's too much, and then take some away.]

[I used to listen to Take 6 and sing the note I wish was there, the 7th note.]

[Textbook voicings die specifically because they are 'correct'.]

Qui suis-je et Pourquoi la clarté est la base de l'entrepreneuriat

[Identifier trois mots qui décrivent la personne que tu veux être et régler une alarme trois fois par jour pour te rappeller que tu es cette personne.]

[Quelles sont les compétences que tu manques pour réussir dans ton business?]

[Comment est-ce que je peux ajouter plus de valeur?]

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.]

Making 5-figures a Month as an OnlyFans Creator with Aella and Savannah Solo

[I spread scheduled posts on a cascading series of subreddits over the course of a few months. Between 8-10 posts everymorning. Delayed/later for Reddit.]

[Seth Godin's strategy is to show up regularly, consistently, and generously for years.]

Let's talk about acceptance and reaching rural Americans....

[Your principles are right, they just need to be applied across the board.]

[Rural life exercises the right to be left alone.]

[I would never tell someone how to raise their kids.]

[What's more damaging: names and words or taking a kid deer hunting too early?]

Basecamp landing page roast 🍗

[Roast a popular company to target their audience.]

[Help visitors feel the pain associated with a problem, and point to your offering as a solution.]

[Show visitors what to focus on instead of expecting them to imagine everything.]

[Some calls to action can be de-emphasized to guide visitors to what you truly want.]

[Highlight longevity, by showing a timeline of how long you've been at it.]

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