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Eugene Wei
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Humans have realized it's more efficient to actually compete for status in these virtual worlds than it is in real life, and that's especially true for young
people
Instagram and Status Seeking in the Virtual World
I think we will see the next generation of educational content be much more appealing visually - it'll have cinematic language and production values and will open up education to the masses in a way that we've never seen before from
text.
The Translation Between Consumption Mediums (Audio, Text, and Video)
Every person now has a choice at any moment in time for how to entertain themselves and they're always going to go to the best option because it's one tap away on their
phone
In This Booming Age of Content, You Are Competing with EVERYBODY
I certainly think there's a lot of great ideas locked away in books today that are very forbidding and not appealing to the masses which could be turned into educational content using video that would reach many more
people
The Translation Between Consumption Mediums (Audio, Text, and Video)
I just think if your best ideas are locked away in some dense textbook, by its very nature it's not going to reach a lot of the audience you want it
to
The Translation Between Consumption Mediums (Audio, Text, and Video)
What the internet and social media have done essentially is increase the surface area of status seeking to the digital realm and virtual realm, and vastly expanded that surface
area.
Instagram and Status Seeking in the Virtual World
Young people realize that communicating quickly is most efficiently done by a photograph or video and not by writing text....They say a photo is worth a thousand words - there's some truth to
that.
Instagram and Status Seeking in the Virtual World
Today with content, at any point in time you are competing with what's on a person's smartphone. This means that formally different lines of business and different industries now compete head-to-
head.
In This Booming Age of Content, You Are Competing with EVERYBODY
Everyone now has to figure out with their content how to compete with every other form of
entertainment
In This Booming Age of Content, You Are Competing with EVERYBODY
I have this core thought that almost everything in the world could be fixed by tightening feedback
loops
The Importance of Tightening Feedback Loops and Taking Responsibility for Your Own Personal Development
The secret to success? - Just show up
The Value of Having Goals
High conversational entropy is correlated with interestingness as a human
being
The Art of Conversation
I think one of the most powerful things that any business can do is to clearly figure out why their growth flattened and why certain people don't use your product - it's often very different than what you
think
What Are Invisible Asymptotes?
Humans are a social creature and we are status seeking by
nature
Instagram and Status Seeking in the Virtual World
I still think video has a lot of room to penetrate a lot of markets that we currently still rely heavily on text
for
The Rise of Video as a Communication Medium
There's so much hidden knowledge that's not in guidebooks that's in the minds of the people who live wherever you're
visiting
To Make Your Travel More Interesting, Talk to the Locals
The best salespeople actually try to understand the client and what their needs are first, and then they adapt their story to
that
Commonalities of Great Salespeople
There's much more to learn from the people who don't use your product, than those who do
What Are Invisible Asymptotes?
Instagram photos are just advertisements of our life
Instagram and Status Seeking in the Virtual World
The truth is, and not a lot of people like to admit it, is that most people don't
read
The Rise of Video as a Communication Medium
A goal is just gamifying your own
life
The Value of Having Goals
Elegance is the maximum amount of information communicated in the minimum
way
When Building a Product, Aim for Elegance
We are constantly in this cultural battle to find sources of
scarcity
Food Experiences are Becoming a Cultural Source of Scarcity
What we're living through now contains the largest network effect businesses in the history of the
world
Amplification of Network Effect in the Digital Age
We're just terrible at looking at ourselves. We will always be the most biased
observer.
The Importance of Tightening Feedback Loops and Taking Responsibility for Your Own Personal Development
If you look at the things that are the best status signifiers for humans, they tend to be those things that are most visible that we have on us at all
time
What Eugene Learned from "The Defiant Ones" Documentary
We've actually NEVER had more resources available to everybody for
learning
The Importance of Tightening Feedback Loops and Taking Responsibility for Your Own Personal Development
Some crazy questions you could ask to make a conversation more interesting
The Art of Conversation
There's no such thing as bad
publicity
What Eugene Learned from "The Defiant Ones" Documentary
Almost always, the largest social networks broaden out over time
What makes a social network succeed? - Embedded Status and Competition
Everything has become entertainment because of the medium through which it's
transmitted
In This Booming Age of Content, You Are Competing with EVERYBODY
The software interface is a form of
language
When Building a Product, Aim for Elegance
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In This Booming Age of Content, You Are Competing with EVERYBODY
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What makes a social network succeed? - Embedded Status and Competition
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The Different Types of Camera Shots in Movies
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Food Experiences are Becoming a Cultural Source of Scarcity
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Why Mining a Crytpocurrency and Using Social Media Aren't That Different
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