If you’re looking for mechanisms that can be great metaphors, one of my favorites is “ratchet”
An obscure one is tensegrity (tensile integrity, a very light structure held together purely by tensioned elements)
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I’m looking for a title for an online course on how to do this for oneself, which unfortunately is much harder
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How to do what for oneself? Come up with mechanism metaphors?
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How to build leverage/network effects/flywheel for your own career by writing on the internet
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How about “Parlay”
Play on words. Both leverage and conversation
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Though the spelling is different.
Parlay = compounding bets
Parley = dialog/dialectic/negotiation/conversation
Maybe "Parley to Parlay: How to turn talk into triumph"
Economist Deirdre McCloskey in fact posits "talk" as the 4th kind of capital after land/labor/money
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I like it but we literally said “we want this course to be this mainstream on a spectrum of”:
vgr——Tiago————David
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And “parley/parlay” is too close to my esoteric end of the spectrum? 🤔😆
Talk hacking by analogy to growth hacking?
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