John MacGaffey
1,000 True Fans
If you can consistently get a relatively small number of people to pay you a modest amount of money, you can find success as a creator.
John MacGaffey
Links for February 13, 2022
⛷ How Olympians Embraced Mental Health After Biles Showed the Way — NY Times
World-class athletes have to conduct their wellbeing just like everyone else. Biles has given more athletes space to share their challenges:
She gave voice to the feelings they have shared — the doubts, the worries, the pressures. In speaking
Destination Addiction
If the source of your unhappiness is internal, you're unlikely to find an external solution for it.
Self-Delusion
After years of struggling to make ends meet as a comic strip artist, Bill Watterson created one of the most acclaimed comic strips of all time.
The Stories Left Behind
If you're trying to launder money, running a laundromat is a great way to do so.
Convergent vs. Divergent Thinking
Thomas Edison famously said. “I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor."
Do the Opposite
Popular wisdom is often correct. But if you only ever do what everyone else is doing, you'll find yourself on a crowded playing field.
Duct Tape
Kintsugi is the Japanese concept of making pottery better in the process of repairing it.
Links for February 6, 2022
🧺 This startup is turning the laundromat into the doctor’s office — Fast Company
Fabric Health is reducing the friction to access public health programs. One can imagine to scaling this approach to help enroll voters, provide support to folks in danger of losing their housing, and more:
“You have to
Subtractive Solutions
One study showed that when tasked with making a pattern of blocks symmetrical by either adding or removing blocks, only 20% of people chose to remove them.