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I’d love to know more about how the Liberal-aligned strategy firm, CT Group (formerly Crosby Textor) came to be put in charge of Yes23 strategy. Also slightly curious: Simon Frost (Josh Frydenberg’s campaign manager) as COO.
Rumour has it this was because of a deal with Dutton to secure bipartisanship. Once secured, Dutton did a 180.
An investigation into how the money was spent could be eye opening.
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I've lost count of how many times I've recommended this brilliant talk on 'How to give a presentation' by @vkhosla:
My full notes and link to the video:
docs.google.com/document/d/e…
My top takeaways are below⬇️:
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You’re ignoring the bit about Albo (allegedly) securing a bipartisan agreement with Dutton, only to have Dutton break that agreement once the foxes were all installed in the henhouse.
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As a former Google PM, I'm genuinely shocked. It made it easy to integrate with paid Google products: Workspace and Cloud. This feels like a huge strategic misstep. I am forced to move my domains to CloudFlare, a Google Cloud competitor. 🤯
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I’m unclear why this didn’t trigger a reset of the Yes strategy. Maybe it was too late then?
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Yes, and with the benefit of hindsight, maybe it wouldn’t have mattered too much what was in the booklet - with all the misinformation that came later. Yet, I’m somewhat alarmed that Liberals might have had their fingers all over Yes23.
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Proudest day of my life! 😂
I suggested this feature of my 1st day at Google in 2005 after being introduced to the ideas board. A few days later a Gmail engineer reached out to say she loved the idea and would implement it!
Cc @victoriaprew
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I’d love to know more about how the Liberal-aligned strategy firm, CT Group (formerly Crosby Textor) came to be put in charge of Yes23 strategy. Also slightly curious: Simon Frost (Josh Frydenberg’s campaign manager) as COO.
Rumour has it this was because of a deal with Dutton to secure bipartisanship. Once secured, Dutton did a 180.
An investigation into how the money was spent could be eye opening.
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How to Re-Design Your Life After Complete Failure piped.video/usYBrCAwWHI via @YouTube
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I gave this little talk at Google at the end of last year and a lot of people said they found it helpful.
I re-filmed it recently in case it's helpful to anyone struggling with similar things.
If you have any other tips or tricks, please let me know!
piped.video/watch?v=usYBrCAw…
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That’s exactly the question I’m asking. However I’m not accusing any one of anything. I would just like more details.
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It was the same person! Jake Smith.
What’s worse, I wrote to @stripe with all the details and they sent back a wishy-washy “At the end of the day each merchant is responsible for the charges they choose to honor…”
This is clearly a huge coordinated attack.
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I love these German postcards from 120 years ago that predict the future…
They were created by a chocolate factory (Theodor Hildebrand & So) as part of a marketing campaign for the 1900 Paris World’s Fair.
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After we came home from the hospital with our daughter, we used GPT-4 to brainstorm names for her.
....the results were incredible✨
Is she the first baby named by AI? No idea. But I'm sure she won't be the last.
Here's the full prompt (see left hand side):
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As a former Google PM, this makes no sense to me.
Google Domains made it easy to connect with Google's paid products: Workspace and Cloud. I'll now have to move my domains to Cloudflare – a Cloud competitor. Huge strategic mistake!
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Would love to know:
a) how much were they paid?
b) what was the actual strategy - particularly for suburban and rural areas?
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Excited to share an project I've been working on...
Task Mate is an experimental crowdsourcing platform to help companies build more inclusive products around the world. We're currently in Beta in India and Kenya.
taskmate.google.com
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I would like some more details on how these people came to hold senior positions in the Yes23 org. What’s your point, exactly?
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I learned so much from @dvassallo and his "Small Bets" course!
If you're thinking of starting something new in 2024, I highly recommend joining this tomorrow.
Tomorrow I'm hosting a Small Bets Fundamentals mini-course for smallbets.co members.
We'll go over the most important ideas around taming uncertainty in business, taking prudent risks, and choosing projects that have a good chance of paying off. And lots of real-world examples.
Ideas covered:
💼 Seeing work as an investment
☂️ The role of randomness
🌍 Two worlds
💸 Become a VC for your own ideas
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🧺 Having a portfolio of small bets
🐄 Treat ideas like cattle, not pets
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💥 We don't learn much from failure
🤯 The definition of insanity
💭 Imagination is overrated
📚 Asset stacks
💡 Inspiration generators
🤑 Everything is marketing
⚖️ Survivorship bias
⚠️ Important, maybe necessary, but not sufficient
💯 Ergodicity
⛺️ A bias for survival
🧮 Probabilistic knowledge
🥊 Selection criteria
🎲 Speculative bets
📈 Asymmetric bets are not sufficient
⏳ Making time your friend
⛓️ Options not obligations
🧪 The dose-response relationship
❤️ Lifestyle-first work
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But it’s like asking Michelangelo if he’d like to use a 3D printer… where’s the fun in that? Non-tech devs primed to reap most of the gains.
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Excited to talk about Task Mate officially after Google for Africa this week: techcrunch.com/2021/10/18/go…
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Background: Pitching to Vinod in 2015 was the most surreal moments of my life (we raised $15.5m in the round, including from KV).
The man is a genius by any definition of the word.
His advice boils down to this:
Construct your pitch like a fascinating children's book.
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Product Managers: as far as PRD templates go, this one is one of the best: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Thank you @kevinyien !
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I recommend watching the full video - it's a "must watch" for any entrepreneur.
Follow the link above to access my notes and a link to the YT video.
Good luck!
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On the other hand he was blamed for not seeking bipartisanship - which is apparently did. Which is worse? I think this reflects very poorly on Dutton.
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Lesson 2: Constructing the pitch
Complexity deters investors; thus, KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid).
Authenticity and transparency are valued over hubris or exaggeration.
Steer into objections instead of avoiding them.
Delete every single unnecessary word!
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Tony Abbot previously said he wanted the same, but gleefully voted No. I’d love to know if Textor personally wrote the Yes case in the referendum booklet. Seems likely since he was head of strategy. Even progressive friends started to question voting Yes after reading it.
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We ultimately failed at Shoes of Prey, but one story I'm still in awe of comes from @jodiefox's book. When she told the workers in China the company was closing, they asked who would finish the shoes. She said the customers would all get refunds, and not to worry. But the workers insisted on finishing them.
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You’re missing the point. As I said in my original post, rumour has it those people were installed in exchange *for* bipartisanship support. Once Dutton reneged, they remained. Best of both worlds for Dutton.
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Ok, good to know. I had read that, but wasn’t sure of the source. Looks like a UNSW led effort?
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Lesson 1: Emotions in Decision Making
Emotions, especially fear and greed, play significant roles in decision-making.
It's essential to understand that the message sent is not always the message received
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GTP4 is a spreadsheet on steroids. We’ll be fine 😉
currentdraft.com/p/how-does-…
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Cindy's book "Lean Customer Development" is THE book to read if you're interested in building products that rock.
I love this tip from her:
Every time I make myself write out
We are doing _____
Because we see the problem of _____
We know it's a problem because _____
If we don't fix it, we'll see _____
We'll know we've fixed it when we get _____
the rest of the conversation/project/doc goes SO much easier.
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I’m curious to learn more about how the Liberal-aligned strategy firm, CT Group (formerly Crosby Textor) came to be put in charge of Yes23 strategy. Also curious: Simon Frost as COO. Who was it that wrote the disastrous Yes case in the referendum booklet?
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What I find more curious is the number of Libs / mining execs involved in Yes23.
In addition to Textor and Tony Nutt (Howard’s advisor), and Simon Frost - Frydenberg’s campaign advisor - as COO, it’s curious that Michael Chaney is on the board too - former Chairman of Woodside Petroleum Limited, and former director of BHP. There’s also Catherine Tanna, a current Director of BHP.
The founder of Yes23 is Daniel Gilbert of the law firm Gilbert + Tobin. He set up Yes23 in 2019, which was very forward looking of him. (Footnote: G+T have a mining legal practice.)
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It's interesting that Uber focuses primarily on driver incentives to power their flywheel, specifically "Do X Get Y" (DxGy) h/t @andrewchen
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This is a great list, but maybe throw some credit @asmartbear’s way 😉
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Thanks Sid! We went with #7 - Hana :)
I loved that it transcribed the answers into Korean as well
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The ChatGPT plugin smart-slides.co recently crossed over 100K users (built by Leopold Lucas, I don't know if he's on Twitter) cc @soroushjp
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I didn’t want to make a big fuss about it during the campaign because why throw more fuel on Dutton’s raging bonfire? But how could Albo be that naive?
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Yes, perhaps. If Dutton reneged on a deal, maybe that should have come out. Very messy though, and would have likely sunk the legitimacy of the Yes23 org. Fewer volunteers would have crippled its effectiveness even further.
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💣(1/5) Feature-wars aren’t fun!
Unless you have an intense amount of stamina, or a fast moving team, it’s hard to compete in a “Hot” space; i.e. one that evolves quickly from one day to the next.
#IndieHackers
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.@danilic raised the alarm during the campaign, but it’s been largely glossed over. I’m livid if true, and want more answers.
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Lol, you must be a comedian. You can actually verify these things by doing a simple Google search. What we don’t know is what deal, if any, was made between Dutton and Albo. I’m simply asking that those details be made public. The fact that CT Group was allowed anywhere near the Yes23 strategy indicates a deal *was* made.
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