Enough with the Picks & Shovels
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Enough with the Picks & Shovels

The lure of overnight success, a boom, a bust. Deconstructing the dynamic that exacerbated one of America’s most-significant boom-bust events to highlight how that dynamic has infused itself into almost every industry during the so-called Information Age.

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Practicing Versus Promoting
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Practicing Versus Promoting

Outlining the difference between practitioners and promoters and how the boom-bust cycle gets perpetuated by the natural asymmetries within the dynamic between them.

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Skills Versus Scale
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Skills Versus Scale

The answer to the question “How will this scale?” often involves some version of “Remove the dependency on people.”

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