Strategic narrative

Oakland, CA
Joined August 2007
The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen - now on @Medium @zuora @tientzuo medium.com/the-mission/the-g…
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The #pluribus hive mind apparently knows everything except "press # to skip this message"
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typed "y'all" for the first time in my life — useful in Slack when not sure whom to call out
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The camera was better than humans at a narrow range of capabilities. AI will soon be better than humans at most/all capabilities (including leveraging AI). I hope the way previous innovations played out is significantly predictive, but it's not clear to me that it will be.
AI is like the advent of the camera - when that came out, visual arts didn't go away— it grew. There were new skills and far more appreciation for visual arts, not less. New industries like cinema sprang up. We are just learning what those will be now.
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"Not fast. Not furious." — older man's t-shirt at Mission Bay Philz
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"Dad, when I'm an adult I'm gonna come back to this Nintendo store and buy everything they have"
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best last line ever
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All interviewees should ask for this
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Words that I and @nprfreshair Terry Gross say that reveal our Brooklyn roots: inaugural/inauguration daughter (sometimes) law
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3 yr old girl in cafe, to strangers with a dog: "I have a dog. And a cat!" Strangers: "Wow." Girl's dad: "We don't have either of those things."
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Honored to have my piece selected by @Transom_org for their Small, Random & Meaningful series (and yes, @iraglass owes me $5, sort of) transom.org/2023/what-nice-p…
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Great B2B companies feel less like they're selling a product and more like they're evangelizing a movement. 5 principles for crafting a movement-defining strategic narrative, w/detailed examples from Gong, OneTrust, Salesforce, and others:
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Apparently my parents wrote into @nytimes for advice during our Yosemite trip in ‘81 and they just published the response
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Never realized it before but @Mike_Pence sounds exactly like @Nick_Offerman
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"Headliner is lamb" is my new favorite copy
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"At what point do people get to do what they want?" — OH in Oakland
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All good things start with a ridiculous request
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"I think it's time we became pickleball people" — OH in Oakland, CA
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