Let's talk about the top 25 animals and statistical comparisons....
[If comparisons are made without defining the criteria, it's probably propaganda.]
Let's talk about the top 25 animals and statistical comparisons....
[If comparisons are made without defining the criteria, it's probably propaganda.]
Every Indie Hacker Has an Online Course in Them
[Shift your mindset towards 'allowing people to pay you'—as long as you are delivering the value promised, most people will be grateful for the offering and happy to support.]
[Ask 'so how did you get started?' so that people understand the guest's successes; this creates curiosity to know the details.]
[It's easier to sell one thing for $100 than a hundred things for $1.]
[The people who pay a lot of money need a lot less hand-holding than those who pay little because they invest themselves more.]
[What feels like work to everyone else but like play to you?]
[Frame in terms of outcomes instead of topics. What do they want to do? Who do they want to be?]
[Personal meaning for each student. Peer-to-peer learning. Prompts to action.]
[What's your memorable framework for summing up the medley of information?.]
[The 'birdsong technique' sounds more official than 'sit on the toilet and scroll through Twitter: naming and framing.]
[What would you teach to yourself three years ago?]
[Set input goals instead of outcome goals.]
Let's talk about what I didn't talk about and a way to reach people....
[Presenting contradictory information to someone with a closely-held belief will trigger uncomfortable cognitive dissonance that makes them reject outright because it flies in the face of what they believe. Don't give them new information.]
[The truth cannot be told, it has to be realized.]
[Whataboutism is proof that people believe something is true across all systems.]
[Talking about the specifics of the situation will cause them to be rationalized by slogans and talking points. Talking about comparable situations in other places clarifies the principles so that they can come to the conclusion on their own.]
[Instead of talking about this conflict, talk about indigenous land disputes in the United States, about police excessive use of force in Black communities, about journalists being censored, talk about military action requiring concrete intelligence before pursuing a target in Afghanistan, talk about how South Africa was a strategically important region for imperialist powers, talk about how funds for military power are better directed towards schools and hospitals, talk about how security clampdowns only strengthen the resistance, talk a out how miners have made concessions while being on strike.]
[Those who are in power benefit from slogans, not from context.]
[I'm on the side of the civilians.]
Documentary on Will Ruddick and Kenyan Community Currencies
[Allowing popular retailers to become banks creates a profit motive for debt, which reduces trading because people are not able to pay expensive loans. Introducing a secondary currency enables people to trade which deteriorates debt as a profit strategy.]
[Joining the network gives you 400, half of which is kept in a community pot for helping children, community lunches, waste collection…]
[The community knows what's best for them. They can back their own money.]
Let's talk about something to do this weekend, miners, and Alabama....
[When wages are raised for unions, it encourages other companies in the area to also raise wages. Makes things better for everyone.]
[There is no such thing as money for nothing. Passive income is just money earned independently of your time.]
[Money is medium for exchanging value. If you want to earn money, generate value.]
[If you can make it to a thousand subscribers then you probably have a formula that works.]
[People can't distinguish between fake and real confidence.]
[Most people have the spotlight on their own lives and are not judging other people constantly, so stop doing that and you might relax more.]
[Every one is friendly but you have to make the first move. Most people are afraid to go first.]
[Practice baby steps like asking the time, directions, asking a question at the end of a presentation. Normalize speaking up and talking to strangers.]
[Plug your unfair advantage in the video so that people know what cannot be replicates.]
My Top 10 Tips for Aspiring YouTubers
[How can I generate as many video ideas as possible? How can I refine them into thumbnails, titles, and hooks? How can I create them in parallel? How can film them in batches?]
[The spotlight effect is a term for the phenomenon of being overly concerned about your own performance in the presence of others, as if everyone is actually focused on you completely. The reality is that they are concerned with themselves and their own issues.]
[People don't know that you graduated from med school last week: they are looking for help with their problem, focus on how you can help them with your expertise, ask when you don't know.]
[Be a guide over guru: share what you have learned so far.]
How Writing Online Made me a Millionaire
[You wouldn't judge someone else for documenting their learning journey on a blog, so why judge yourself?]
[Put yourself out there on the internet to find other people interested in similar things.]
[Write every day not because you have lots to say but to figure out what you have to say.]
Let's talk about what we can learn about politics from medics....
[Infighting develops during lull periods because comrades have nothing to do. Train, get involved in other causes, do something fun.]
[Break up cliques by playing team sports mixed with people from each side to instill camaraderie.]
Patrick McKenzie: Internet Famous
[Don't use the incentive structures of ad-driven media outlets to influence your own writing. People may have more time and attention in your context.]
Jeff Morris Jr on Investing In Product Companies
[A lot of people use Tinder just to see who likes them back because it's like a game.]
[If you buy Tinder boost it shouldn't feel like Google Adwords, so we created superpower-like animations to make it feel like a special moment in art or NBA Allstars.]
[Most people would say that they let me invest because they wanted me to help with product, so I decided to re-brand the fund as product-focused and I would be the product person on yor cap sheet.]
[We chose TikTok influencers over Silicon Valley investors because we knew our product worked and needed an audience, distribution.]
[Why shit on the city where you grew up and received many opportunities?]
Phil Libin: Find a new way to ski
[You know everything's going right when it had nothing to do with you.]
Let's talk about Duckworth, Walsh, and systemic issues....
[If you're complaining about diversity quotas, you are the reason they exist.]
[Talk to people. It's never a bad time to talk to customers or prospects if you're having high-bandwidth conversations with them about their problems, desires, or what they need.]
[Knowing how to cook is a friend catcher.]
[Problem-solving is a friendcatcher. When you solve people's problems, they come to you with their problems.]
[A friendcatcher is resonant, tractable, and underserved.]
[The email subject is the promise: overdeliver in the body.]
[When someone first pays, they probably are more motivated than normal, the iron is hot so take advantage, you can reach out more then and then cool off later.]
[Don't start the work of a SAAS company until you've had 10-25 conversations.]
[Have 10 commits to buy before launch.]
[There will probably be 1 primary thing and 2 secondary objectives during any week. One of those should be 'talking to people' and another should be 'less interesting but necessary'.]
[Being able to credibly say 'this is what I do' builds trust.]
[You can be unreasonably good at what you do, irrationally responsive to customers.]
[Move fast and make things.]
[Price tiers are a way for customers to acknowledge they are getting outstanding value, you can ask them why, this can tell you what to build next.]
[Trolling is posting where the reaction is the content.]
[The real hallmark of abundance is variety not quantity.]
[Facebook's real product is the ability to find lookalike customers: turn this audience of 10 into 1000 that are similar.]
[Kids understand systems well because because they don't think in terms of cause and effect: they look around and make things.]
[Silicon Valley wins because it is a culture that values building over solving problems.]
Let's talk about Biden's mental state....
[In the face of a wild accusation that's false, try leaning into it: isn't it great that a team of experts rather than a politician is making decision? If the vice president has the final call, it must be terrible for Trump. Can you imagine how bad it must have been that we elected a guy with dementia?]
Baremetrics Founder Josh Pigford on Side Projects and Growing a $1 Million SaaS Startup
[If they're not paying, their feedback will likely be that of someone trying to get something for nothing as opposed to those who value the offering.]