NYTimes: “Consider the popularity of Keith Johnstone’s 1979 acting guide, “Impro,” which has taken on a cult status in tech circles…“Impro” is both a guide to theatrical play and a guide to social relations. Central to Mr. Johnstone’s argument is that human beings are unconsciously playing status games at all times, playing “low” and “high” to each other depending on their context. The book includes exercises for aspiring actors, many of which involve challenging actors to pay attention to one another’s social cues in order to play higher or lower status. (“He who looks away first is the more dominant,” the author warns.)”
Andy Kessler: “Who’s ‘Working Class’ anymore? Classes are now arbitrarily ranked by income, power and social connections.”
SaaStr on new B2B pricing models. “The seat model is dying for three reasons, and only one of them is AI per se.”
Kevin Rudd: “If you look at China’s export performance around the world—in the United States, though that is now declining because of the tariff wall which has been constructed defensively in response to it; in Europe, where at present a tariff wall has been contemplated but not yet executed; and in Southeast Asia—China in the last 12 months has generated a US$1.2 trillion trade surplus with the rest of the world. This is the most powerful engine room remaining in the Chinese economy today: net exports.”
