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Looking to invent the next 'big thing', look no further

That social media is thriving is simple; it enhances the natural design of our human ecology. We are transactional. We transact for money, yes, but we also transact for attention, love, membership, fulfillment, organization and much more.

Human Ecology: a branch of biology that deals with the relations of human beings to one another and their physical surroundings.

For anyone looking to invent the next 'big thing', look no further that this:  Anything that innovates the speed, simplification or expansion of a humans intent to be healthy, happy and prosperous will be highly valued by a large number of people. 

As an example:

"Seth Godin, author of ten international bestsellers that have been translated into over 30 languages, and have changed the way people think about marketing and work. His 'Unleashing the Ideavirus' is the most popular ebook ever published, and Purple Cow is the bestselling marketing book of the decade"

What is most beautiful about Seths work is that he holds a mirror up to humanity and trains us to think about ourselves and the marketplace from the point of view of our authentic natural human social behavior.

The Key: the next big thing won't get invented by trying to simply solve a marketplace pain, it will get invented by innovating our capacity to transact within it.

John Patterson

The Internet is free? Big difference between money and cash

Money is a formal exchange of help. It takes all forms.

I help you, you help me. 

But when I need toothbrushes and you only have brooms, then we trade cash (currency); an invention to facilitate the exchange of help (money).

If you see money as help, it expands your understanding and you can pay attention to money (help) in all its forms: service, trust, favors, introductions and much more. You are almost always in a transaction for help from others to live a healthy, happy and prosperous life.

Google and Facebook understand this and offer 'free' help, but make cash (currency) by giving others the opportunity to tag along (ads) during the transaction. The Internet allows models that are large ecosystems which make cash (currency) on billions of free transactions for help (money).

If you collapse the understanding of the two, money (help) and cash (currency), you will not see the all opportunities to make more cash.  You may not be getting cash (currency) where you are providing help (money). You may not see opportunities to make cash (currency) where OTHERS are exchanging help (money).

Most dangerous to your wealth, you may also not understand the value of your help (money) and providing it free of charge with little or nothing in return. Doing so will make you poorer, it devalues your money and therefore your cash.

Highly regard your help (money) to others and increase the value of it.

John Patterson

Never trust the advice of those who can't show up on time

I assert there is a direct correlation between someone who can keep their appointments and their sage advice.

First, in an ecosystem of business professionals, superior performance is quantifiable.  It is measured in a variety of ways and not just monetarily.  You are helping people and their trust of your reliability of that help is also always being measured.

Your self-discipline and outward-discipline are not two distinct worlds, regardless of what you tell yourself.

I have found training thousands of people that anyone that tells you they keep their promises when they don't show up on time is actually telling you they will sometimes keep their promises and only some of the time, maybe.

The insight of someone who can't operate with rigor is not advice I care to hear.

Sound like someone you want to do business with?

John Patterson

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Why do you live here?

"Why do you live here?" the soothing alien voice says to Captain Benjamin Sisco, porting him to a moment in time where his wife died in a fiery blaze caused by a battle he could have prevented.

Sisco argues "I don't live here, this is the past! I live Now, here, in the present."

The aliens imprisoned Sisco saying that humanity posed a threat to the laws of physics...that human temporality was a violation of universal order.  The aliens argued that while humans portray that they live a linear experience (past/present/future) they are lying since they obviously live here; continually porting him back to his wifes fiery death.

The aliens point out that his future choices are being guided by an event that is no longer happening...and that this does not hold any logic given the future hasn't happened yet.

Although he continues to argue that these are just 'memories', the Captain realizes that the aliens are correct. He doesn't live HERE, he lives in the regret of his wifes death...or the memory of her being alive. He lives trying to make up for - or return to something that is no longer happening.

His admission of the truth releases him from the alien prison and his own.

Star Trek's Deep Space Nine; 1993

Where do you live? Where does the majority of the marketplace live?

There are inventions and innovations that are not about where we have been, but where we are going. They revolutionize the course of history and the direction of the marketplace. 

Given that the majority of the marketplace lives here (the past), future-guided innovation is in short supply and highly rewarded.

John Patterson