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As a born and raised Brazilian, I witnessed this huge **getting things done** behavior no matter how much *gambiarra** one will need to do. And that was present in many of my life circles: family, friends, work, services.. you name it.
*Gambiarra* is a improvised way to solve things. It’s not intended to be a long-term solution, but it will be fast and cheap, making problems disappear for a while.
Shifting approaches: from an idea-driven to a problem-driven mindset.
Daniela Castro
Rewild your attention” — that’s a wonderful way of putting it! (Or as CJ Eller titled his blog post, from which I got my title here: “Rewilding Your Attention”.)
Instead of crowding your attention with what’s already going viral on the intertubes, focus on the weird stuff. Hunt down the idiosyncratic posts and videos that people are publishing, oftentimes to tiny and niche audiences. It’s decidedly unviral culture — but it’s more likely to plant in your mind the seed of a rare, new idea.
“Rewilding Your Attention”. To Find Truly Interesting Ideas, Step… | by Clive Thompson | Aug, 2021 | Medium
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I will say that based on playing around with lots of configurations, improving your retention rate appears to be much more important to long term income than sign-up rate. Relatively small changes there can have huge cumulative impacts.
For example, if you had 100 daily subscriptions and 90% retention, your equilibrium point would be around 30k subscribers. Increasing it to 95% retention would jump you to 59k subscribers. You’d need roughly double the daily sign-ups (200) to reach the same level.
The Tyranny of the Churn Equation
David Smith
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