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Itβs messy, practically in scribbles, and thatβs the way itβs supposed to be. Seriously, you can write these ideas down wherever you likeβin a napkin, on your hand, in your notebook, in a spreadsheet. I like to write mine down in my phone, or whatever pen and paper I can find, and keep track of them in Airtable, so I can search them up later. I sort them by reverse chronological order, and whenever I think of an old idea, I find it, add to it, and move it back up to the top.
Sponsoring or buying a product as a way of buying into someoneβs future. This reminds me of a podcast from WorkOS who had said the same thing.
Enterprise animalsβanimals that make jokes about IT sysadmin, etcβ¦
My writing as a combination of Shea Serrano (because heβs so versatile he can write about anything in culture!) and β¦ ??? See Byrne Hobartβs description of his own intersection in Marker non huckster piece
I add value as an idea generator (because Iβve been exposed to so many through reading)βand how Iβm giving a lot away because thereβs no way I can actually do all of these ideas. And thatβs what Virgil [Abloh] did too, I think. You need to have the ideas to provide directionβor youβre executing them. Thatβs what high level meansβ¦ see the book on hierarchy
DM interviewsβjust interview Twitter-famous people on DM/iMessage/Signal or over email for my blog, and let them know I also republish at Medium with 12k+ followers and sometimes at Fast Company as well. This should take no more than 30 mins on my end, and I can set up templated questions just like I do with Crossing the Enterprise Chasm. They can respond in text
Marketing as training your brain to see opportunity and optimism, which is what sets expectations too
Tourist, purist, and traveller. The value of the traveller is they bring a global perspective, a βholisticβ oneβthey are a purist in their own way, the way of globalization. Tyler Brule is one. Virgil was one too!
βBest practicesββdoing a lot of stuff and seeing what works and what doesnβt. Based on hypotheses, thinking, and guiding principles of course because nobody can do everything. βAllow strategy to emerge.β
Singapore real estate isnβt an asset, art ownership as home ownership, and a world where art is handled as an asset like real estate
Print the comics out in newsprint or some other unique type of paper and then take the photo. There is something curious about the screenβpaperβscreen transition. One of many ideas that emerged from French Dispatch.