Why We Need More Omakase Creators - by Luke Burgis - Anti-Mimetic—New Ways of Wanting Why We Need More Omakase Creators
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Why We Need More Omakase Creators - by Luke Burgis - Anti-Mimetic—New Ways of Wanting Why We Need More Omakase Creators
The world would benefit from a proliferation of omakase in every sphere of life.
Luke Burgis • Why We Need More Omakase Creators - by Luke Burgis - Anti-Mimetic—New Ways of Wanting Why We Need More Omakase Creators
Maybe there is a lesson to be learned here for creators, entrepreneurs, builders, and craftsmen and women—for anyone who takes pride in their work and does it with excellence. If people want to pay you a premium price to put themselves in your hands and let you create what you truly want to create, then you’ve done something truly special.
Luke Burgis • Why We Need More Omakase Creators - by Luke Burgis - Anti-Mimetic—New Ways of Wanting Why We Need More Omakase Creators
This is partly why I find Lean Startup Evangelical Fundamentalism a little weird. Just in case you’re not familiar, “lean startup” is the meme-ified idea that entrepreneurs should build “Minimum Viable Products”, expending the least amount of resources to build the things that are most perfectly adapted to the ‘market fit.’
Luke Burgis • Why We Need More Omakase Creators - by Luke Burgis - Anti-Mimetic—New Ways of Wanting Why We Need More Omakase Creators
Are we making the things that we truly want to make, or are we making the things that we’re mimetically-driven to make?