Oct 24, 2021
Online Search, Wannapreneurs, and Street Cred (for Photographers)
Pete’s Letter: Volume CI, Issue #17
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A lot going on this past week. Great stuff from Rory Sutherland, my boss Howard Lindzon, and Melissa O’Shaughnessy (whom we all suspect is the power behind the throne) No new investing activity for me this week in stocks or crypto. Well, unless you count a Tungsten cube. I bought one. People are tired of hearing about it.
Have a great week.
Pete
READING
The Spectator | Rory Sutherland
Rory writes about the value of salesmanship, something economists frequently discount, and leaving a little room in our lives for serendipity.
“An axiom of economics is that we all have stable, known preferences. But there’s a problem with this assumption — it’s rubbish. Often we can’t get what we want, so we settle for wanting what we can get…”
LISTENING
Want-trepreneur | The Compound & Friends #20
Social Leverage co-founder and managing partner Howard Lindzon drops quite few gems here. Most interesting, the concept of information overload. According to Howard, yes, we’re awash in information, but overload isn’t the problem. It’s filter failure. We need to adjust our filters rather than worry too much about the information barrage hitting most of us on a daily, if not hourly, basis.
WATCHING
Photoville: Behind the Lens of Joel Meyerowitz & Melissa O’Shaughnessy
“It’s practice. It’s looking at your own failures, looking at the great work of other photographers and starting to see what makes an interesting photograph; how you fill it with things that can make your eye travel and stay with it for a minute… it’s the ones that make you stop and say, “There’s a lot of human living going on in this picture.” ~ Melissa O’Shaughnessy
My award-winning series on writing better:
WRITERS SERIES
BONUS
This is literally the best thing on Twitter from last week:
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