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I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, people start off wanting the former and end up wanting the latter.

How to Be Successful

blog.samaltman.com

In societies that are essentially social contracts (as all human societies are), freeloaders who take the benefits of the contract but avoid paying all the costs erode trust in other members of the community and quickly lead to the collapse of society. When that happens, it causes communities to fragment, and we retreat into the little clusters of people we really trust. The question that motivated this model was whether dialect might provide a quick-and-dirty guide to membership of your community, and hence of whether you could trust someone.

Friends

Robin Dunbar

These meetings can be of two flavors: a formal presentation of recommendations or a co-creative workshop. Both serve to bring a team of stakeholders into alignment. This approach works with two key aspects: 1) when a culture exists that encourages constructive disagreement, so that people are comfortable voicing their opinions and leaders appreciate hearing them and 2) there is general agreement on the organization’s overall strategy, so that stakeholders can agree on how to make decisions.

Product Roadmaps Relaunched

C. Todd Lombardo, Bruce McCarthy, Evan Ryan, and Michael Connors

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