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Selling Your Ideas Through Sheets Of Paper Summary: To make a positive first impression at events like South by Southwest, don't try to sell someone in person. Instead, hand them a well-crafted pitch on a folded piece of paper and include your phone number. Leaving a memento and acknowledging their busy schedule can also help make a good impression. Transcript: Speaker 1 How do i make a positive first impression? Your job at south by southwest is to not make a bad impression. Oeh. Because if all you're doing is trying to sell someone, there are many different ways to do it, aside from coming to south by southwest. What i would recommend, especially ini an instance where you're trying to reach, say, an alister, write somebody who's getting mobbed and pitched all day long, like an anthony bordan, Or whoever it might be, don't try to give the pitch in person. Give them a folded up piece of paper with a page that you've painstakingly crafted. That is the perfect pitch. Include your phone number. You'd be surprised how many v ip folks like to call. Folks we esciped have a conversation. Is supposed to send you their personal emal for instance, don't make an impression. Leave a memento. Just say, hey, i realize you're super busy agout this long line of people. You're under a lot of pressure. I've thought about this. I think this will be of great interest to you.

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The Tim Ferriss Show

Cynics are those who actively oppose change. NOBL recognizes that “cynics’ negativity can be annoying,” but engaging with them and trying to convince them can often be a huge time suck when it comes to leading change. Here’s the magic: “cynics are just disappointed idealists.” Perhaps they have gotten their hopes up about change only to be let down. Unlike a fence-sitter, a cynic is at least actively engaged with the change effort so spend your time delivering “something that matters” to your cynics, because actions will speak much louder than words. And if you are successful, your greatest cynics, once won over, will often become your greatest advocates.

Becoming a Changemaker

Alex Budak

Prediction Markets Are Built on the Principle of Adverserial Engagement Transcript: Speaker 2 There the first is what you're describing is precisely the reason why i am a bit of a skeptic of prediction markets not to say that they don't have a role but i don't think that they are nearly The solution that many believe they are and it's because they set us up in an adversarial relationship with regards to determining the truth it's not at all the say i don't think incentives Have a role or that it isn't worth a listening information for me i believe in all those things but the notion that the way that we should do it is betting against each other so that we want Everyone else to be as wrong as possible so we can be right and we want to get like one big payoff for like the person who's most right and anything that can be like too easily analogized To some sort of like dick measuring contest is not something that like excites me as a mechanism for like coming to good social outcomes and i think that prediction markets have an important Element of that

Glen Weyl & Cris Moore on Plurality, Governance, and Decentralized Society

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