Viral growth needs to be network-driven, India’s richest businessmen prepare for a ‘green battle’, and learn how find your Zone of Genius, so you can start playing the games you are best-suited to win.
Viral growth
Viral growth is often misunderstood as ‘viral marketing’, where a shareable ad campaign is launched with no network effects.
Network-driven viral growth is more impressive as viral growth is embedded into the product.
Viral growth is firmly linked with retention. Each renewed visit by a believer offers a chance to share and invite others in.
A more accurate viral factor metric equation would go something like this:
X*Y*Z + X*Y*Z^2 + X*Y*Z^3 …
(where X is % of users who engage in some viral feature, Y the # of people who are invited each time and Z the % of users that retain between each visit)
Zone of Genius
From The Curiosity Chronicle, by Sahil Bloom
Your Zone of Genius leads you straight on to a more fulfilling, productive and successful career path. Here’s the four-step plan:
Experiment & Collect: talk to people, ask questions, collect data, learn from your experiences and reflect. This is a never-ending process.
Build your matrix: match your skills (min to max competency) with your passions (high to low).
Identify your zones: incompetence, neutrality, excellence and genius.
Execute: maximize time spent in your Zone of Genius.
India’s green future
From the mesha tribe
At the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, India made some bold comments: they plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2070 and transfer 50% of the nation's electricity to renewable sources.
Two of the world's richest businessmen, Mukesh Ambani and Guatam Adani, rush to lead India into its new green future and get their hands on some nice government incentives.
The production of green hydrogen will most likely be the toughest contest between the two.
Cryptoland
From Of Dollars and Data, by Nick Maggiulli
Last week FOMO was everywhere as SHIB surged over 200% in a week, up over 850% over the last month.
While many parts of ‘cryptoland’ hold incredible value and have the power to revolutionise industries, they won’t overturn traditional financial systems or our basic way of life.
The Lindy Effect theory reveals that the life expectancy of an idea is proportional to its current age, and fraud, government-issued currency and spending time with people in real life are all ‘lindy’.
Zuckerberg and Meta
From Not Boring, by Packy McCormick
Meta’s best strategy is to run as a minimally extractive coordinator and “disrupt Facebook by turning itself into something that behaves more like a protocol than a platform.”
Meta won’t be the Metaverse but it can place itself in a key position to expand the GDP of the Metaverse.
Facebook’s biggest enemy is Apple; Facebook’s greatest input to the Metaverse may be to stop Apple controlling it or at least help invite healthy competition.
Extra Reading
Building a better Metaverse (Digital Native, Rex Woodbury)
Crypto Equities (The Pomp Letter, Anthony Pompliano)
The future of homeownership (Consumer Startups, Leo Luo)
Meta, remote work and climate tech (Exponential View, Azeem Azhar)
Are creator platforms ripping you off? (Napkin Math, Evan Armstrong)