Storytelling is a superpower.
A key to unlocking growth in your writing, startups, marketing, business, or career.
THREAD: 10+ principles of effective storytelling (that you can start using today):
Kobe’s definition of greatness:
“Inspire the people next to you”
“Figure out how our story can impact others and motivate them in a way to create their own greatness”
"No meetings before 11am.
No meetings when emails or calls will do.
Don’t schedule calls, text coordinate them on the fly when possible.
Cram all meetings into two days a week. 1-on-1s are usually 30-minute walking meetings.(Meetings are the death of productivity)"
@naval
17% of users who visited my profile last month followed me.
That rate used to be under 1%.
How? I made my bio better.
Here are 30+ frameworks to help your bio convert more followers:
@Reuben_Wu @withFND Hey @Reuben_Wu! Thanks for supporting photographers! I make timelapse art! Certainly photo-based but a little bit different! Would love to work with @withFND !
This visualization (from the amazing @waitbutwhy) is perfection.
If you allow the past to consume you, you will never create the future you want and deserve.
When in doubt, focus on the future. It is so damn bright.
Extreme physical distancing measures will make a big difference in the U.S., but we need a consistent nationwide approach. Until the case numbers start to go down across America—which could take 10 weeks or more—no one can continue business as usual or relax the shutdown.
This shows the location data of phones that were on a Florida beach during Spring Break. It then shows where those phones traveled.
First thing you should note is the importance of social distancing. The second is how much data your phone gives off.
This is the best one-stop-shopping, easily-digested, piece I’ve read yet on the various routes ahead of us here at the start of the COVID-19 disaster.
Anybody who thinks we can restart anything by Easter is insane. Maybe Easter 2021 https://t.co/PLE3m3CbWK
This month, the US stock market lost two trillion dollars in market-cap due to a problem that science R&D could have preemptively solved.
That figure exceeds the sum of all funds ever received over all years since 1950 by the National Science Foundation, the NIH, and the CDC.