Tyler Shadick

“Pull platforms make it easier to assemble participants and resources on an ad hoc basis to problem-solve unforeseen issues or situations. As a result, they enhance the potential for productive friction as people with different perspectives, skills, and experiences come together to try to find a solution for a specific problem. In contrast, push programs view all friction as an inefficiency that must be eliminated. The purpose of tightly specified programs is to eliminate wasteful debate and disagreement, especially at the point of execution.”
― John Seely Brown, The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion

“We now have the chance to transcend the limitations of the experience curve. The more participants one adds to carefully designed creation spaces—and the more the interactions that occur between and among them—the greater the chances are that everybody participating will get better quicker at whatever it is they’re doing. Rather than each new increment of experience contributing less and less—as in the experience curve—each new participant in a creation space makes all the previous participants—and interactions between them—incrementally more valuable. A virtuous cycle begins to emerge as more and more people connect with each other.”
― John Seely Brown, The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion

“True innovation does not happen when we control creativity,” Shai wrote in 2005, “but when we challenge, create shared vision, and passionately pursue excellence.”3”
― John Seely Brown, The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion

“Practice telling the story of your startup. Write it down so the words are succinct. Make each one count. Create a 30 second, 3 minute, and 30 minute version.”
― Bill Woolsey, Seven Steps to Start: A Sacramental Entrepreneur's Guide To Launching Startups That Thrive