Depending on where you live or where you grew up, those are priceless experiences that will always stay with you. Where I lived in NY, there was a place called Bubba's Burrito Bar; for years, everyone told me about it. It was a good location, and the food was excellent. There was a slight problem: the place was small, and the owner fought with the town for a number of years because he wanted to take over the location across the street. Then, the store next door became vacant. It took him about two years, and he finally expanded. He expanded to scale. A bigger kitchen, larger seating area, and more technology to take orders. Nothing ever changed about the food. You ask an interesting question because I am not chasing anything. The intention is scaling to offer more solutions and expertise. It comes down to creating experiences that clients will remember.
We all grow, and scale, if we are lucky to survive long enough. The difference, for me at least, is if you are growing for growths sake or you are doing it with deliberate purpose.
Most businesses, at least the ones i've been part of, that get a taste of success have no idea how to handle it. They have no plan, no vision, no strategy, so they just grow and grow and grow because they have the opportunity. Until the opportunity is removed and they crash, really hard, back down to earth. Many of which never cover.
I feel this way about podcasts, too. In the early days, there were a lot of unique voices, the production value was more raw, and I loved it. Now, a high percentage of them sound heavily produced, and copy all the same beats of “This American Life,” etc.
Totally agree. YouTube as well. It's about winning the algorithm. Which, to those that win, i understand it can be financially lucrative. For us consumers, it's a copy of a copy of a copy. Harder and harder to sift through the highly polished, highly optimized content, with 10's of millions of views, to find that one piece of content, with 87 views, that absolutely punches you in the face, like a Mike Tyson uppercut, with quality and value.
Depending on where you live or where you grew up, those are priceless experiences that will always stay with you. Where I lived in NY, there was a place called Bubba's Burrito Bar; for years, everyone told me about it. It was a good location, and the food was excellent. There was a slight problem: the place was small, and the owner fought with the town for a number of years because he wanted to take over the location across the street. Then, the store next door became vacant. It took him about two years, and he finally expanded. He expanded to scale. A bigger kitchen, larger seating area, and more technology to take orders. Nothing ever changed about the food. You ask an interesting question because I am not chasing anything. The intention is scaling to offer more solutions and expertise. It comes down to creating experiences that clients will remember.
We all grow, and scale, if we are lucky to survive long enough. The difference, for me at least, is if you are growing for growths sake or you are doing it with deliberate purpose.
Most businesses, at least the ones i've been part of, that get a taste of success have no idea how to handle it. They have no plan, no vision, no strategy, so they just grow and grow and grow because they have the opportunity. Until the opportunity is removed and they crash, really hard, back down to earth. Many of which never cover.
I feel this way about podcasts, too. In the early days, there were a lot of unique voices, the production value was more raw, and I loved it. Now, a high percentage of them sound heavily produced, and copy all the same beats of “This American Life,” etc.
Totally agree. YouTube as well. It's about winning the algorithm. Which, to those that win, i understand it can be financially lucrative. For us consumers, it's a copy of a copy of a copy. Harder and harder to sift through the highly polished, highly optimized content, with 10's of millions of views, to find that one piece of content, with 87 views, that absolutely punches you in the face, like a Mike Tyson uppercut, with quality and value.
You can tell a lot about a person by what kind of Mexican restaurant they like
i'm starting to learn of this truism.