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– Valeria Maltoni
Input capital is the one thing you can control. Your reading diet makes a difference.
Whatever it Takes. February 10, 2023
Life’s Too Short… February 5, 2023
They called it “The Gentle Revolution.” December 23, 2022
How you speak is who you are. December 16, 2022
Details are the hallmarks of a story you can relate to. December 9, 2022
Some of us knew that all along. November 18, 2022
A 12-Foot Presence Impossible to Ignore. October 14, 2022
The Ultimate Reframing Tool. August 12, 2022
Beyond the Hype. May 6, 2022
What’s the One Piece of Advice You’d Give Yourself? April 22, 2022
What is the Optimal Amount of BS? April 8, 2022
Emergent Novelty, March 25, 2022
The Current Thing, March 18, 2022
Touch with your Own Hands, March 11, 2022
The Silence that Speaks. March 4, 2022
True to What you can Do. February 25, 2022
Numbers and Words. February 18, 2022
Energy in a Beat. February 11, 2022
Trust without Knowing. February 4, 2022
Social Radar. January 28, 2022
Paying it Twice. January 21, 2022
Simply the Best. January 14, 2022
Reality Check. January 7, 2022
What we Talk About, When we Talk About Love. December 17, 2021
Everything here apparently Needs us. December 10, 2021
Measuring Value. December 3, 2021
Gratitude is like Vitamin D for the Soul. November 19, 2021
What’s the Weight of Culture? November 12, 2021
Energy, the Next Frontier. November 5, 2021
Infinite Choice. October 29, 2021
How to have an Impossible Conversation. October 15, 2021
The story isn’t the whole story. October 8, 2021
Chase the news, and you miss the story. October 1, 2021
It’s not what you Think. September 24, 2021
See the Future. September 17, 2021
Influencing the Influencers. September 10, 2021
Summer Edition(short form)
When was the last time we talked? July 30, 2021
Do you feel lucky? July 23, 2021
Impossible is a mental barrier. July 16, 2021
The secret to creativity is… July 9, 2021
All you need is love July 2, 2021
How do we get better at now? June 25, 2021
How to turn disappointment into fuel. June 18, 2021
Incentives do work. June 11, 2021
It’s no use going back to yesterday… June 4, 2021
What lights you up. May 28, 2021
The good, the bad, and the judgy of language. May 21, 2021
More of the right kind of books. May 14, 2021
One way to reclaim your power. May 7, 2021
A year-plus Journey in Rethinking (long form)
The power of stories. 💬 The meaning of friendship. Editing your story. Can we make transformation natural? April 16, 2021
Owning mistakes. 🚧 Writing as discovery. Irony and transformation. A $100 million bet, language, conversation, and numbers. April 9, 2021
The art of the desk setup. 🖌 Check mate. Convergence. Tools… and one more (fun) thing. Design through subtraction. March 12, 2021
Hey, don’t knock beans on toast.” 🍞 Sweet stories are made of this. Fighting the future. Why nostalgia sells. The ingredients for making something that lasts. March 12, 2021
“When you get lost, get back to point one.” 1️⃣ Searching for… Italy. The unbundling of everything. Life lessons. March 5, 2021
Transmission and ritual in culture. 🎙 The key to being contrarian. When in doubt, draw a distinction. Ideas and tools. February 26, 2021
Using memes to build something new. 💚 A play on words. The cliffhanger at the end of season one. Other memes of note. February 12, 2021
How does your flywheel turn? 🧭 Raising the bird. How taste shapes your views. Feedforward and feedback. Special Story, special person. February 5, 2021
Social: constraints or bubbles? 🧼 Kobe’s Way. How to create a monopoly. Value in culture. Learning to be human. January 29, 2021
Change the story, change the outcome. 📖 Miracles don’t grow on trees. Slow-motion. The power of stories. January 22, 2021
Good transitions are underrated. 📫 Inside / Outside. Start, maintain, stop. January 15, 2021
Turnaround artists. 🎨 Listening, for a change. Everything must be said again. A reflection. Redefining success. January 8, 2021
Time fast and s l o w. ⏱ Being a custodian of these places. Seeing problems, living conditions. ROI in connection. December 18, 2020
Getting closer to the end product. 📦 Handle with care. Engagement. A web cartoonist, two comedians, a producer, and two filmmakers walk into… December 11, 2020
More agent, a little better conversation. 💬 Are you talking to the right people? Innovation-speak. Attention. December 4, 2020
Thinking around corners. 🤔 How innovation happens. Structure and order. Paid communities. What it means to “think for yourself.” November 27, 2020
What cultural curiosity looks like: LT work ➔ value. Making things different. Wiring quality stuff. Soulful bets. November 20, 2020
Why emotional risk is the key to stand out. 👁 2020 vision. Brand. Communication. Vision. Why blogs are still useful. November 13, 2020
Find me somebody to… trust. ✅ A better version of yourself. The ladders of wealth creation. November 6, 2020
Asking people for money.💲Media Consumption. Media Sources. Community Participation. B-Sides. Fiction reads. October 30, 2020
The Social Dilemma.👍 Internet’s opportunity machine. Media production. Media distribution. Community impact. October 23, 2020
Remember when tweeting was a novelty? 🐦 Amarcord. Nursery rhymes about the end of WWII. Why build a company. October 16, 2020
Feeling as quality of life. 🤓 Word… of the year, in science. Copying mechanisms. Master of your worldview. October 9, 2020
You don’t buy a life, you build one. 🔨 Tables are made for this. Laughing matters. How and what? Good question. Ultimate job to be done. October 2, 2020
Is math real? √ Cultural Curiosity. Saving your outtakes. What we do with ideas…. that’s what counts. Someone who believes in you. September 25, 2020
Good for you! ☕️ Someone to help. Strategy: it’s all in the doing. Steal these ideas. Clear thinking… a starting point. September 18, 2020
What’s behind you… doesn’t matter. 🏎️ Compounding. Trying different perspectives. Remote is nearer: what’s your strategy? September 11, 2020
Your story is in the pauses. ⏯ Soft landing. Now’s’ a good time to figure out what “work” means to you. Priceless? September 4, 2020
Why productivity is such a big deal. ⚡️ Speaking as listening. Reuse. Crazy questions. A new word for what you’re feeling. Spread the ❤️. August 28, 2020
Creator: without one, the value chain breaks. 🔗 Curators benefit most. Connectors’ role. Communication rules. August 21, 2020
Exposure: it’s not what you think. 🎞 Experience. Expertise. Excellence. August 14, 2020
Making the cut. 🎬 Metaphors that change minds. 3 useful ideas. Spread the ❤️. August 7, 2020
Opportunity is all around you. ☀️ Managing energy. B2B to B2C to P2P and A-teams: a love affair with acronyms. July 31, 2020
Recurring interest. 🧲 Correct incentives as therapeutics. Why we buy. Modern Insecurity. July 24, 2020
Does your CEO understand marketing? 🤷♀️ brand value: just an illusion? Argue and win. Belief and formulas. July 17, 2020
Two a penny insights. 💰 Make them see it in a new way. Constancy. July 10, 2020
Generation why. 🔩 Strategy pillars. Racing to help. June 26, 2020
All happy people are different. 😎 Self-serving biases. On being relevant, consistently. Finding joy in your work. June 19, 2020
Have you really read this? 💎 Laughing and how humor is serious business. Do you know what you don’t know? June 12, 2020
Power ⚡️ and success. Perspective and point of view. Reference points. Peace. June 5, 2020
What’s on tap?🚰 💦 Going below the surface. How to help people make new choices. May 29, 2020
Things will change—f o r e v e r ⭕️ not at all❗️Time to say goodbye… to old habits? Stop chasing your tail. May 22, 2020
Life’s journey is an Odyssey. Technology and humanism meet… next year. ✨ Hope. May 15, 2020
Seeing things, in reverse. 🌈 It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves. May 8, 2020
Little is little; nothing is too little. Divergent thinking. Spread the ❤️. The truth is… everyone counts. April 24, 2020
Eternal Fridays, changing habits, and giving imagination a chance. April 17, 2020
Taking the long view, the relationships between patience and energy and how the future exists across a spectrum. April 10, 2020
A letter from the future, sometimes words fail: a moment of silence. April 3, 2020
Checking-in, working through ambiguity and reconnecting with your “why.” March 27, 2020
As we drown in information, we crave connection. How to run a video event, psychology and security, survival kits. March 20, 2020
A live stream put together in 3 days in a country in complete shut down, the power of culture, and newsletters. March 13, 2020