Lauren Crichton
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Lauren Crichton
The difference between conservatives and liberals
Conservatives are economic individualists (don’t tax me) and moral collectivists (let’s legislate against immorality)
Liberals are economic collectivists (NHS) and moral individualists (my body, my rules)
(WAP deck, read in 2021)
“Extreme” questions for brainstorming
If all our customers vanished, and we had to earn our growth and brand from scratch, what would we do?
If our biggest competitor copied every single feature we have, how would we still win?
If you were forced to increase your prices by 10x, what would you have to do to justify it?
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“Discipline is not a lack of freedom, it is a harmonious relationship with time.”
— Rick Rubin, The Creative Act
The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal. It is a belief that dominates this culture. It is what makes the poor whit... See more
A Question of Class by Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison - A question of class
“Once I went to a new dentist and he said, “That crown is beautiful. Which dentist did it?“ Most people wouldn’t think dentistry is art. But there’s opportunity for je ne sais quoi in every field.”
— Wesk Kao, Turning a yellow spot into the sun
“I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought.”