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A few years ago I was called into a boardroom and asked: \u201cHow do we turn around the headlines for our team?\u201d \u201cWin games,\u201d was my answer. Hugely simplistic and it doesn\u2019t solve deep rooted problems that require greater surgery and strategy from creative brains, but it helps.
— Lee Clayton (@LeeClayton_) January 30, 2021
“Win more” is the footballing solution of taking a painkiller for toothache. The pain goes away for a bit but ultimately you still need a painful root canal. And West Ham have needed that for a long time. This current limited success is *despite* the Board, not because of them.
Lest we forget, Moyes did a fine job first time around and was let go so we could pursue a bigger name, waste tens of millions and undo his good work. They’re lucky he was still available and willing to work for them again. They don’t deserve him.
But winning is helpful because a lot of the time, fans struggle to articulate what needs changing. So if the team is doing well it’s easy for the media to say “You’re fourth - what more do these West Ham fans want!” and for fans not to have an easily digestible answer.
But we know that a losing streak will arrive, we’ll suffer some bad luck and some injuries and then it won’t seem so rosy. And at that point we’ll be accused of being fickle, when the reality is that the underlying problems have been present for the entirety of the GSB reign:
The reasons for this, is that literature before O'Nions et al (2016), the LWC PDA DISCO paper viewed social demand avoidance to be manipulative. Also that two tools derived from original PDA DISCO questions view such behaviours as manipulative.
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The reasons for this, is that literature before O'Nions et al (2016), the LWC PDA DISCO paper viewed social demand avoidance to be manipulative. Also that two tools derived from original PDA DISCO questions view such behaviours as manipulative.
— Richard Woods (@Richard_Autism) December 26, 2020
Instead of gathering dusts in my bookmarks I have compiled them into one guide:
With: @gaganbiyani @RomeenSheth @josephflaherty @yoheinakajima @daytonmills @micahjay1 @paigefinnn @dunkhippo33 @amanda_robs @pinverrr
1/10. Adjusting your mental mode to the process of
At Udemy, we were 3 first-time entrepreneurs trying to raise seed capital. We made every mistake in the book.
— Gagan Biyani (@gaganbiyani) October 7, 2020
We got 200+ no\u2019s and wasted 12 months fundraising.
We eventually pulled through, just barely. \U0001f605
This thread shares our mistakes as lessons for founders.
**Read On**
2/10. Fundamentals for building the slide
0/ There\u2019s a lot of noise on how to pitch your startup.
— Romeen Sheth (@RomeenSheth) January 5, 2021
Keep it simple. Every good pitch boils down to five ingredients. If you have all 5, you'll get funded. Miss 1 and it can be fatal.
I made a chart describing how the ingredients relate to each other.
Let's dig in \U0001f447 pic.twitter.com/pSeH8yzfKp
3/10. How to craft the most important slide in the
Every pitch deck needs a \u201cteam\u201d slide.
— Joseph Flaherty (@josephflaherty) January 31, 2020
At the early stage of a startup when the product concept is fuzzy and revenue is non-existent, VCs are essentially backing the team above all else.
But almost all team slides are sub-optimal.
Here are two ways they could be better:
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4/10. One way of raising a seed round:
How to raise a seed round. Just one process, adjust accordingly. Missing lots of nuance. \U0001f447
— Yohei Nakajima \U0001f64b\U0001f3fb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f (@yoheinakajima) December 20, 2020
Popping back on briefly to share some insights on media consumption, spread of conspiracy theories, & epistemelogical divides.
— hannah anderson (@sometimesalight) January 12, 2021
1. The increased burden of sifting fact from fiction is one that only the economically privileged have the bandwidth to keep up with day-to-day, especially w/the SPEED of news generation we've seen in the last 6-10 years. This contributes to polarization & significantly... 2/12
... disadvantages blue collar America (on the left and the right) in an info economy, and is a massive catalyst for populist sentiments that make it exponentially harder for already-weak institutions to lead or swim against the tide (see Yuval Levin's "A Time to Build"). 3/12
2. I cannot agree more effusively with @sometimesalight's point re: social media & narrative. Social media platforms function as counterfeit institutions (social spaces that form identity via narrative, connection via shared purpose, & virtue via participation). 4/12
Prior to SocMed's ubiquity(approx. 2010), sifting/weighing primarily happened in traditional institutions (esp. churches) where perspectives tempered by wisdom, virtue, & relationship both evaluated & prioritized info. They served as both refuge & filter, solvent & catalyst. 5/12
Just finished my morning ride and yoga and I’m going to use Mikes tweet to elaborate on not only his quote and topic but something I have found very dear to me. It’s something I do real time without even realizing it anymore. It’s second nature and it brings me happiness
Said on the desk today (quoting Childish Gambino):
— Mike Bellafiore (@MikeBellafiore) December 11, 2020
Happiness is the goal,
But greatness is the mission.
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2/n
For every person in trading happiness and greatness are two completely different things or could even be the same thing
One traders happiness could be executing with precision even if a red day and still walk away happy while others could be happy with “just being green.”
3/n
On this, greatness is different to every trader
To some it could be executing with precision or, like me, it could be that you find greatness and happiness in being able to look into your coach’s eyes or accountability parents eyes and say....
4/n
I did what was required of, when it was required, where and how it was required
I have no regrets. I executed my edge as seamlessly and flawlessly as I could
This is stress free trading. This is something I thank @FuturesTrader71 for. “We have no outcome on the market.”
5/n
If you’ve made it this far. Good. Now the “good parts”.
Something I have found myself doing over the ages as time goes on is “auto adjusting” my entry sizes, stops, and profits
Nobody ever taught me this. There are no oblivious statistical calculations or ratios for me...
Hi my dears, some personal info:
— Prof Julia S \U0001f30d\U0001f339\U0001f331 #ClimateAction #TrumpOut (@JKSteinberger) September 7, 2020
I wish I had tried to get therapy much, much sooner.
That's it. That's the tweet.
It feels self-indulgent even to write it, but that's part of the problem, isn't it? We're trained to not seek help until breaking point. 1/
I used to feel apart from things, alienated. I couldn't enjoy beauty or family. I live in a staggeringly beautiful place, but I couldn't enjoy the view or lake or mountains, because I know climate change is destroying glaciers & ecosystems. 2/
https://t.co/rvq2eRiXgC
Just as I was fearing watching the white summit, the "neiges \xe9ternelles", of Mont Blanc melt from the baking plain of Geneva in the #HEATWAVE2019 , I l learn it's above freezing at 5000 meters. 200 meters above the summit of Mont Blanc, the great roof of Europe, our tallest Alp. https://t.co/isGqbqjYaw
— Prof Julia S \U0001f30d\U0001f339\U0001f331 #ClimateAction #TrumpOut (@JKSteinberger) July 24, 2019
Every day I had a hard time with my kid, putting on a brave face to get him to school and back, knowing every moment that I am somehow not doing enough to preserve his future. That he & his friends are being harmed, every day more, by our industrial and economic systems. 3/
What my therapist helped me understand is that I am right to have those feelings - it would be insane not to, given what I know about the state & direction of the world. But she also helped me understand that I was harming myself by putting myself apart from & above my world. 4/
In my previous worldview, I was apart from, in opposition to, my environment and my society. I saw myself as a lonely witness of devastation, howling helplessly and with little effect to try to change a disastrous trajectory, resentful of the ignorance & inaction of others. 5/
So how does @xuenay do
5/ But I don't want to have to wait to share these models! I've already begun to share them with coaching clients, with great results.
— Matty G (@mattgoldenberg) January 7, 2021
So over the next few weeks, I want to do a few tweetstorms sharing the https://t.co/WlcYFIARFW models. I'll quote tweet them in this thread.
2/ Like with all of these models, this is inspired by interview @xuenay but not necessarily endorsed by him. There's a necessary translation process that goes from his head to my head to paper!
3/Let's first talk about beliefs and motivations. What's his primary motivation to start this process?
For him, it's a process of seeing people disagree, and feeling a visceral sense of frustration at people talking post each other.
5/ For him, it's almost a proprioceptive sense of two different shapes. One person is saying circle, and the other is hearing square. It's really important to make these shapes match up!
6/ There are two underlying values here. The less salient one is wanting a sense of admiration from others. It's really nice to get praise for creating good explanations that unify two viewpoints.