Taylor Pearson's Blog, page 6

Comment on The Illegible Margin: Profiting From The Gap Between The Map And The Territory by Taylor Pearson

Have been thinking a lot about getting closer to the spigot as well. It’s so much easier to charge more when you’re closer.

Comment on The Illegible Margin: Profiting From The Gap Between The Map And The Territory by Matthew Newton

‘Spend 80 percent of your resources on stuff that is highly likely to work or already working and then spend 20 percent probing and tinkering.’

Nice one Taylor and this article touched upon two major things in our biz – we call this 20% above the ‘fuzz’ and try to allocate time to it.

”Charging has a legible cost that you see on your credit card. On the other hand, your data and activity has an illegible cost to you, but is a very legible asset in the eyes of advertisers.’

And this is how Vi...

Comment on How can individuals and organizations leverage technology to take control of their futures? by petears

So,
has Nate doubled your business in 3 months?

Comment on Disintermediation Theory: 5 Reasons People Keep Taking Advantage of You (and How to Stop Them) by kaitangsou

It is the difference between magic and miracle…

Comment on Disintermediation Theory: 5 Reasons People Keep Taking Advantage of You (and How to Stop Them) by kaitangsou

iT BOILS DOWN TO THE bUDDHA DHARMA IN ITS PUREST FORM…THE POWER OF one, YOURSELF, TO FIND YOUR VERY OWN nIRVANA…

Comment on Disintermediation Theory: 5 Reasons People Keep Taking Advantage of You (and How to Stop Them) by Taylor Pearson

I think some technologies definitely work to increase intermediation. The 19th and 20th centuries and the returns to industrial economies of scale they gave was the epitome of that.

I’m more advocating the Hobbesian view that the arc of history is long and bends towards disintermediation.

Comment on The Path to Wealth and Power is Paved by Definition by Ronan Leonard

Totally agree. We all need some kind of support and guidance. Business owners that continue to work in isolation are not as productive or effective as when they are in some kind of Mastermind or support group or coaching.

Comment on Disintermediation Theory: 5 Reasons People Keep Taking Advantage of You (and How to Stop Them) by Ross Milburn

You claim that technology has “accelerated disintermediation and increased agency,” and I agree the Internet and computers do that, especially for publishing music or books. Yet the first industrial revolution forced millions of freelance workers (home workers, small workshops for furniture or ironwork, some agricultural workers) into factories as the servants of capitalists, and intellectual property rights also has the effect of intermediation. Do you think some technologies work to increas...

Comment on Antifragile Book Notes and Applications by kaitangsou

can;t-express-well stuff…that is the strongpoint here…Still in HCMC btw?
I may head that way…from my place here in Philippines…Klub Safari…btw…

Comment on The Illegible Margin: Profiting From The Gap Between The Map And The Territory by Andrés Doppler

Well, another example of trying to use one metric for a complex system is the GDP for Wellness of a nation. Generally, is the main value people think of when measuring how well a state is doing. Unfortunately, the “territory” suffers, as the case of the German forest