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Hi,
Welcome to Learning Habit: your weekly dose of insight from things that caught my eye to help with high resolution conversations.
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— How to Evaluate Value. As Nietzsche said, we value things that cost us. But cost and price are not the same. Cost is more like prize, as Steve Jobs alluded to in his keynote as returning Apple CEO in 1997. Something we earn through work, participation, and what we stand for, because we act on our beliefs. Read more.
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— How we Live Fast & Slow. Finding the answer of what works — the combination of fast and slow that works — happens with the help of time. A community of like minds and a network of connections do create a robust infrastructure to stay the course and absorb the shocks. Hence why we gravitate toward people who act like we think. Read more.
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Books Worth Reading
The Business of Belief is a primer on the hidden logic to motivating behavior, both in ourselves and in others. It is no longer enough to simply have people know about your product or service or ideas. We need to go beyond knowledge to have an impact that will make them choose us, support us, work with us, and recommend us. We need people to believe.
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How Domino's Pizza Drove a 90x Increase in Stock Value by Acting Like a Tech Startup. It’s a story of reinvention. Domino’s had a 180-degree company overhaul and turned critics into superfans by being honest with themselves about their weaknesses. They took a huge, scary risk and completely scrapped and remade their core product: pizza. At the same time, the company has been perceptive about where their true value is for customers. They know customers love them because they’re convenient—and in recent years they’ve used technology to double down on the convenience and reliability that define the core of their brand.
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Most Personality Quizzes Are Junk Science. I Found One That Isn’t. They call it the Big Five — a system that organizes personality around five broad clusters of traits: extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experience.
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How to create a high performance culture. You cannot take and put one culture on another. Five ingredients to create a culture: 1. Shape the story; 2. ask, don’t tell; 3. create leaders; 4. embrace failure; 5. hold each other accountable. Businesses are focused only on #5 and overlook purpose. “In sports, we say athletes are a commodity, and this brings out greed,” because we see them only as performance for profit.
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The Blindness of Social Wealth. The mass migration to online life is not the only force driving these trends, but it is a big one. Such big subjects didn’t come up in the Zuckerberg hearings because socially wealthy and socially poor people experience Facebook differently and perceive reality and social problems differently. It’s very hard to quantify and communicate the decline in quality of relationships.
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Valeria
Conversation Agent LLC / @ConversationAge
Conversation Agent focuses on business, technology, digital culture, and human behavior. At Conversation Agent LLC, I help organizations and brands that want to build better experiences tell a new story.
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