The myth-busts, hot takes, explainers, and tools worth keeping.
“I'm not 100% convinced that if you think about this in a vend diagram that the people who sign up for the productivity are going…”
“I think there's a much higher probability the YouTuber people would also want to benefit from the productivity stuff than the Assumption of the productivity”
“it's only it's only complex if you don't have enough people in systems to you know handle the complexity”
“it's just having the right people and systems um that's how you scale”
“maybe it's because we're in the learning phase here and so it's like you know a an area of the business that you want to…”
“do you collect enough metrics and have enough visibility on them that you can avert disaster”
“one of my thesis about the world is that information is not is no longer OT”
“if we continue to try to charge for self-paced informational courses we will end up falling behind”
“what if the YouTuber stuff was repositioned so it was more about how to help the online entrepreneur build their personal brand”
“they operate in a really structureless environment so it's really really important that um they make the best use of their time”
“your business becomes a lot simpler when your value ladder is offering the same thing but just with different levels of support”
“you escalate the levels of access and the levels of support but you keep the value prop the same”
“the culture you've created is such that if people feel that they're being stretched in an unhealthy way you want them to raise their hand…”
“my theory is people will naturally just take the path of least resistance we're like water”
“the question is should we kill the Golden Goose”
“it was always a bit of a side hustle and it ended up just overtaking the business because it was this massive Golden Goose that…”
“the fact that we sold a 12-month program felt like it it's it stopped us from feeling like we could make changes to the program…”
“damn we're giving them a lot for very small amounts of money in the grand scheme of things”
“it always feels as if like there's this sort of frantic energy of like building the cruise ship as we're already at Sea and also…”
“that doesn't necessarily mean that you need to kill things that could just be a sequencing issue”
“we actually don't have any true sources of recurring Revenue we have somewhat uh pseudo recurring Revenue in the sense that we can sort of…”
“it's the start of the year and our Revenue count has reset to zero and our expenses are up at 2 and a half million”
“nobody told Steve Jobs that they wanted the iPhone”
“you might come up with your own you know Model T Ford or Apple iPhone ideas but it's going to still be organically informed by…”
“any task overdue every day just automatically gets pinged into slack everyone can see oh my tasks are overdue I haven't ticked them off”
“in the last week we've just we've installed project management as a system in our company and it's like oh we have much more clarity…”
“the the growth in the follower number is the Northstar metric because for you know it's one thing to say I like something it's another…”
“which is all the work that for someone to compete with us they will also have to do”
“the aggregate compounding effect of that over time that's what creates you know the strength in your brand positioning”