Category: Wisdom
Some good wisdom from people around the web, including @NevMed.
9 Steps to Figures Chart
This chart effectively simplifies the process of growing a company by outlining the three distinct phases of a company and the essential steps required during each phase.…
What needs are unmet? Self improvement chart
This is a great chart to help you overcome your fears. By following the arrows, you can pinpoint unmet needs and what you can do to meet them, alleviating your …
When core beliefs are formed
Some of your core beliefs are forged in the first 21 years of your life.
For example if you grew up during The Great Depression, you’ll likely have qualities that …
1 idea executed vs 1 million ideas
Moving fast and scrappy and validating an idea is better than having endless ideas and doing nothing.…
Evolution of the Alphabet chart
This is a really great chart that shows how the alphabet constantly evolves. You can see the ancestors of our current modern day 26-letter English alphabet!…
Qualities to sell a company for a very high multiple
If you ever want to sell a company for a very high multiple, here’s some qualities of that company:
– It owns a niche.
– It has recurring revenue.
– …
AIDA Formula low effort -> high impact
The standard AIDA Formula is still one of the most useful things in copywriting a person can learn, look at this result:
It’s probably the lowest effort to learn, yet …
U.S. Interstates visual
How did I not know this before?
Even number interstates: Side to Side
Odd number interstate roads: Up and Down
I love it when a simple graphic like this teaches …
Newsletters are just blogs.
Newsletters are usually a bunch of short posts and thoughts listed out. This is what most blogs were.
The thing that newsletters solved versus blogs: DISTRIBUTION.
When you publish a …
Email list cleaning
Having done this many times across many email lists, I can tell you it’s healthy for the email list in the long run, but a massive hit to the ego …
Most regretted college majors chart
This shows the college majors people most regret getting, usually due to a lack of opportunity the major gets vs the amount of effort/cost to acquire it.
Do you regret …
“Learning Pyramid” chart
This is a cool chart that shows how much people remember from different mediums of learning.
- 5%: Lectures
- 10%: Reading
- 20%: Audio/Visual
- 30%: A demonstration
- 50%: Discussing in a group
What you planned -vs- What really Happened
We can all relate to this….you plan all this stuff for the morning, and you end up working on a “little of everything” and end up getting nothing done 😬…
Social Platform Axis Chart
This is an awesome axis-graph which let’s you see where you are on the smart/ugly/hot/dumb scale!
This would be awesome to recreate for your industry.
P.S. I screenshotted this and …
Great alternative to “Now Hiring” sign
This sign at a CB2 store stepped up their copy from “Now Hiring” to “Dream Job Alert” which is far more compelling. Also checkout the 3 bullet points at the …
If I was born 200 years ago.
I’d live in a 200-person village in India, with poor eyesight, laboring in a hot field my whole life.
I am thankful for all inventions, especially the internet, that came …
What can you make from a barrel of oil?
Sometimes a complex subject can be better illustrated than told. For example this is a cool graphic that shows all the stuff that comes out of a barrel of oil.…
4 main ways to scale
If you want to build something big (or run a small company with large outputs), you need to some form of “scale.”
There’s 4 main ways to scale:…