Culture

Planted 02022-09-14

• The Four Dirty C-Words of the Internet
• ACT: A Cyclic Theory Of Subcultures
• Power Laws, Weblogs and Inequality
• Consensus not censorship
• SSC: The lottery of fascinations
• The bus ticket theory of genius
• Hacking Hard-work
• The Power of Indulging Your Weird, Offbeat Obsessions
• The Ends of Curiosity
• The Long Tail
  • The Long Tail: The Internet and the Business of Niche
• The Benefits of Stubborn Consistency
• Psychology of LitRPG
• Review Drift
• Cultivating hospitality
• Language and culture
• Dan Luu: Culture
• Don’t Fix Things. Write a New Story
• How to Drive Meaningful Change - Handling objections to your proposal
• Push and Pull
• Find the Savages
• Communication structures
• What Really Motivates You at Work?
• Going Deep 🤮
• The 4 keys to creating team accountability

if I were to suggest some criteria for a superior narrative, they would be: It is externally oriented. It’s about who the customer becomes, not what the company does. It functions as belief-driven business logic. It uses carefully considered counter-orthodox beliefs to govern choices across product, strategy, people, and capital, not just storytelling. It meaningfully differentiates. It justifies unique systems, activities, and experiences that competitors can’t easily copy. It creates strategic coherence. Teams align without being controlled, as the narrative guides distributed teams in a singular direction. It is future-permissioning. It authorizes moves others can’t make, because they do not yet have the benefit of reverse engineering the logic and counter-orthodox beliefs encapsulated by your unique narrative.

– Paul Worthington, Off Kilter, Volume 199: Narrative As Firmware.](https://www.invencion.com/campaigns/view-email/bZFk1ILM98DbopzoO3jgSf3RLQbjWgdWs6o635tcXi5CHB3nN9rMk-VOKBnBgYUTGw9Cf3AVcIevNirKErakcAf-R8eIPfwkotIVNUCY1y7sNoccQQyUGoe5c_BQSz1z7qO9648CstJpmXP5CDsZxUj9dZHzR2wp1HO-hw==?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=6807a50d23ef066da75f400e&ss_email_id=680a2450a2e5f515fd70c1eb&ss_campaign_name=Off+Kilter+199%3A+Narrative+As+Firmware.&ss_campaign_sent_date=2025-04-24T11%3A45%3A26Z)