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This is going to be the summer of Brand Consolidation and Rationalization and Customer Journey Integration for me. It's going to be delightfully horrifying and cringe.
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Watching grow his empire has been very illuminating... in terms of shedding light on what I definitely don't want to ever attempt. Which is run huge 1500-person cohort courses with an army of lieutenants and a secret service and air cover from a major book project
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Even the thought of it exhausts me to the point I have to go take a nap. But there doesn't seem to be a small, snowflakey way to do online courses... I'm thinking hole-in-the-wall with styrofoam plates
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Writing is kinda really easy lifecycle-wise. You have an idea, you write it up, you put it out, whatever happens happens. Good or bad, there is no marginal effort after you hit publish. No updating, no repetition, no iterative refinement. One and done.
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Teaching is the exact opposite. Takes about 3-4 iterations of a course to even run it in enough that it flows. The most I've ever done a public course is twice. Corporate workshop stuff I've done 3-8 times, but it's not the same since that doesn't really compound/improve it.
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Another project that's languishing is my quadrantology personality test and card game. It's at the 90% point, but will take a bit of product packaging for the table top game version to work, and some coding to make the personality test functional in a non-one-off way.
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The personality test currently exists as a matlab script that can score the test (tried on about 200 people), and the game exists as a test run of 20 packs of cards+dice that I've been meaning to mail out for ever (was playtested at refactor camp 2019)quadrantology.com
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In this case, it really is 90%... not the whole the first 90% takes 90% of the time, and the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time... the bottleneck is intention, not execution... not quite sure where I was going with that whole project
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some sort of impedance mismatch... it's not the kind of project I usually do, and it's sort of a personality mismatch for me. I just did it because it seemed like a fun thing to do at the time. I am not really a game developer or personality test maker.
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hmm potential rule -- only allow non-ribbonfarm brands if I'm sort of the non-principal partner in a collaboration and somebody else owns/operates all the marketing and infrastructure assets
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