How to start a movement | Derek Sivers
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a short leadership talk that commenters have shown to many people.
What it is
In a six-minute TED talk, Derek Sivers uses footage of a dancing man at an outdoor festival to show how a movement starts. He argues the first follower is what turns a lone nut into a leader.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2010 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Recommends aidos · 2013-12 · on “OK, Milt Olin, I'll start writing again”
Sorry to hear of the loss of your friend. As a devote cyclist it always hits me hard to hear of another cyclist being injured - especially when it appears as though it was through no fault of their own. Maybe it's not as obvious to you but, I feel, your writing adds some much needed colourful philosophy to our community. As you say yourself, all too often we end up with our heads buried deep in virtual technical problems and forget to embrace the world that surrounds us. I can't count how many people I've shown your leadership talk to [0]. [this video]
Cites timelinex · 2010-12 · on “Defecting by Accident - A Flaw Common to Analytical People”
hmm... I think many rationals problem is that they don't interact enough and then use their positive social interactions to social proof their bad ones. Consider his first scenario where the person puts up his hand and says that they don't have the budget to do that. The speaker might indeed be mad and likewise some others in the room. Invariably there would be someone there that likes your outspoken or directness[just by the share number of people in the room, probability dictates it]. Now, if our rational guy stands there by himself and refuses to interact with others, the speaker and his allies will brand him as rude. Every move he makes, no matter how trivial would only be seen in this l
Cites peteforde · 2020-01 · on “Pursuing a Business I'll Love”
I found your discussion of the sheet metal concept really interesting because as you found out the hard way, there's an awful lot of behavioural science in play. The line about Word having too many features is that everyone uses 10% of the features... the problem is that everyone uses a slightly different 10% of the features. One thing you should try hard not to do is look at the competition and write it off as crap. It's highly unlikely that your antecedents set out to make a shit product. It's likely that when they were starting out, they wanted to create something efficient and streamlined, but then years of paying customer feedback took things to where they are today. The folks at 37sign