He’s got exceptionally poor client qualification, is actively hostile to better branding, refuses to focus on what he is good at, charges too little, and has poor collection practices which are downstream of working for an unending collection of muppets.https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1210219953099440134 …
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This business wants to be a boutique pest control consultancy which specializes in “When you have already tried everything else, you call the Witcher”, probably spends 80% of engagements doing the same three things, travels at a moment’s notice, and charges a king’s ransom.
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Note that the Witcher has the canonical problem of attempting to mix a charity and a consultancy, which is that if you can charge a king’s ransom then just do that and hire charitable specialists to give peasants gold rather than killing giant rats for them.
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You can subcontract out the killing of the giant rats, subsidized down to free by killing dragons, to any of the host of options for rat killing who are not the }^*#^]ing Witcher.
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If you're going to analyze business models in the witcher, clearly Aretuza is much more interesting to have you expound on
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Is that the magic school? I think I have to either play the games or read the books to have a better handle on it, but broadly nobody gets microeconomics for schooling anywhere close to right in fantasy.
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“How so?” The schools are generally comically underpriced (where we get textual evidence that they cost anything); they’ve got capital requirements higher than the Manhattan Project and are often depicted as being short on e.g. writing supplies, faculty shouldn’t work there.
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Have you read The Name of the Wind by
@PatrickRothfuss? I think you'd enjoy the microeconomics of The University's admissions process and tuitions. From what I remember, it was based on the applicant's propensity to pay and what they brought to the table.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
@narayanarjun Is a huge proponent of this book I read and really enjoyed it. And then basically stopped because his irrationality around his dating life was affecting the plot--and the one thing I can't stand is when I think the plot is driven irrationally But I should retry3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
The only one I remember, and this is such a bad idea that it should grace the cover of All Time Bad Ideas By a Fantasy Protagonist, was “Ah, a goddess of primeval magic whose countenance is madness and whose song topples mountains. Clearly, I should
$VERB her.”1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
I will accept “avoid” as one of the vanishingly few good completions for that madlib, but the actual text provided at least three other ones, all far worse options.
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