Ngl I like unusual people. The black sheep, the odd ducks, the eccentrics, the artists, the loners. People who actually think for themselves, the kind whose values are not swayed by groupthink. These people have beautiful souls.
I hate that we are in an age where you have to put yourself out there on social media. I hate it so much as it’s not everyone that’s comfortable with it.
I sell mostly to Americans and I'm European. The distance teaches you things people inside can't see.
Americans buy at 11pm from an ad they saw 8 seconds ago. The order is in before the video ends. No European buyer does this. A German needs 40 reviews and a week of thinking; an American needs the checkout to load fast enough to beat the impulse fading.
Returns are a lifestyle, priced in like weather. An American orders three sizes, keeps one, and feels nothing. First month selling US clothing, our return rate made me think something was broken. The volume made up for it before I finished worrying.
Reviews work backwards from Europe. Europeans read the 1-star reviews to find the catch. Americans read the 5-star reviews to get hyped for what they already decided to buy. Social proof sells the dream over there; in Europe it survives an audit.
Shipping speed is identity. A Swiss buyer tolerates 8 days if you're honest about it. An American at day 5 opens a dispute, because Amazon trained an entire nation that waiting is an insult.
And the one nobody believes until they sell there: Americans WANT to be sold to. A hard pitch that would make a Scandinavian close the tab makes an American pull out the card. Selling is a service over there. It's a crime over here.
Wrote about the European versions of this a month ago. Same products, same photos, entire different species of buyer. The operators losing money in the US are running European instincts on American demand.
@tigushamwa Nearly all leading opposition presidential candidates in Africa refuse to accept defeat, and some even stage elaborate protests. The truth, however, is that many of them lose the election long before voting day
Having participated in general elections at a local level (constituency). You appreciate better that most, if not all, politics is local. More interestingly, you understand that electoral losers often command a significant numbers of voters (e.g 22,000 votes vs 16,000 votes). 1/n
From @uniben to @Princeton to @Cornell
Big News, I passed my PhD candidacy exam and proposed my dissertation.
It feels surreal. My advice to upcoming researchers is to keep exploring until you find your zone of genius .
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