I suspect we’re about to see a zeitgeist-level design ethos swing from “ideas worth spreading” (TED, media lab etc) to “jankiness worth fixing” The specific sordid reasons the trend is reversing now are actually not that important. It would have happened even without scandals.
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It is possible to overcorrect and overcompensate and end up with the opposite pathologies but let’s start the swing back
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As a general principle, you “brand values are my adverse selection pressure”. Just like “your margin is my opportunity” Your brand values will likely hide a brand premium that is attractive to those who can pay the premium but don’t share the signal values.
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What is your weakness on flip side of strengths? Glamorous orgs = big marketing budgets = starved backoom ops. They are relatively inefficient fundraisers/spenders. Weakness: you need to raise $2 for every $1 a non-glamorous org does. Who do you think is willing to overpay 2x?
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This seems like a plan to kill the Media Lab. It's supposed to be visionary, so you need a visionary leader, or one that's good at picking visionaries to lead labs. They need to double down on vision, but likely a new vision.
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Worth a long-bet. I think we're headed for a decade or two of "vision recession" where the initiative shifts to the opposite of "visionary" types.
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Do you know the answer to this?https://twitter.com/johncgreer/status/1170817595907481601?s=21 …
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I asked the same question yesterday and got a few responses
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It’s all been basic repairs, jury-rigged workarounds etc. Stuff that’s 10% harder to do every year.