“Tempora mutantur, nos et mutator in illis.” In case you did as poorly in 7th grade Latin as I did, that translates to, “Times are changed, we are changed with them.” And like life after Latin, things move on. All of us. Everything. Impermanent and ever-shifting. Friends. Relationships. Bills. Account balances. Daily schedules. We can … Continue reading Times Are Changed, We Are Changed With Them
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Podcast Of The Week: Matthew Ball On The Future Of Media
Patrick O’Shaughnessy has done it again. His Invest Like The Best interview with Matthew Ball covers all things media, content, and distribution. The range of questions he’s asked in this interview and the sheer depth and clarity of his responses show his craft. Ball’s ideas have widened the way I understand how companies like Disney … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: Matthew Ball On The Future Of Media
The Best Way To Predict The Future Is To Make It
Famed management thinker Peter Drucker used to say, “The best way to predict the future is to make it.” Everyone is predicting (i.e. guessing) who will be the next President, when coronavirus will be gone/kill us all, and which direction the stock market will go tomorrow. Far fewer are making (i.e. doing something) to lead … Continue reading The Best Way To Predict The Future Is To Make It
Podcast Of The Week: Tyler Cowen Interviews Reid Hoffman
Hearing Cowen talk to Hoffman is less of an interview and more of a study method. It's like he approaches him as a queryable database he can just search through. Religion (he's a "mystical atheist"), partnering referral questions (what's this person's greatest weakness and greatest challenge?), and games (the relationship between strategy, tactics, and uncovering … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: Tyler Cowen Interviews Reid Hoffman
Win-Wins And Why Fear Is Good
Shep Gordon is known as a kingmaker in rock music, food, and film. A keystone philosophy of his business and life is to always look for the win-win. He doesn’t approach it from some business school sense. Gordon acknowledges that the future is scary. If we are willing to go into the future to identify … Continue reading Win-Wins And Why Fear Is Good
Podcast of the Week: Amusing Ourselves to Death
"Check this book from the mid-eighties that talks about the cultural implications of TV," is not a very relevant sounding pitch. But - I think I've recommended Neil Postman's book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, countless times for the way he thinks through society's media problems and predicted much of the social revolution we've in the … Continue reading Podcast of the Week: Amusing Ourselves to Death
Pave The Cow Paths
The way we are told to do things isn’t always the only (or best, or worst) way to do them. It can be true for our internal processes as well as for how clients respond to our products and services. Despite alternate routes often being obvious, we don’t always talk about them. Our future relies … Continue reading Pave The Cow Paths
The Most Powerful Force For Creating Capital Is Cultural Capital
“I believe the most powerful force for creating capital is cultural capital.” - Steve StouteIn 1986, Adidas found themselves with a 2% market share in America. What was extra strange was that 80% of those sales had been coming from a concentrated portion of the northeast region and they couldn’t figure out why. In this … Continue reading The Most Powerful Force For Creating Capital Is Cultural Capital
They’re The Heroes, We Just Write The Story
Superheroes aren’t interesting because of their superpowers, they’re interesting in how they relate to everyone else despite being so radically different. Relationships and perceived relatability are simultaneously as basic and complicated as it gets. These are useful templates we can use for managing our own professional relationships. From Amazon’s adaptation of The Boys, where the … Continue reading They’re The Heroes, We Just Write The Story
A Surprise Prediction
Morgan Housel says, “History is the study of surprising events. Prediction is using historical data to forecast what events will happen next. Do you see the irony?” And that’s the problem. Even if we can predict what will happen next, it won’t be from the historical record if it really matters. So what’s the good … Continue reading A Surprise Prediction