Economic models explained by cows

Economic models explained by cows

Hey Everyone,

Hope you're having a great week. Here are a few things I've been reading, writing and pondering lately. Enjoy!

1. Draft No. 4

This is a long but great article by John McPhee. I was clued in by Good to Great author Jim Collins on the Tim Ferriss podcast.

If you lack confidence in setting one word after another and sense that you are stuck in a place from which you will never be set free, if you feel sure that you will never make it and were not cut out to do this, if your prose seems stillborn and you completely lack confidence, you must be a writer. If you say you see things differently and describe your efforts positively, if you tell people that you “just love to write,” you may be delusional.

2. 21 Economic Models Explained

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.

You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.

Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow has dropped dead.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION

You have two cows.

You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.

You then create a clever cow cartoon image called ‘Cowkimon’ and market it worldwide.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION

You have two cows, but you don’t know where they are.

You decide to have lunch.

3. We Analyzed 912 Million Blog Posts. Here’s What We Learned About Content Marketing

I’m generally not a fan of this kind of post, but Brian Dean knows what he’s doing. Here’s one finding I thought was particularly interesting:

We found virtually no correlation between backlinks and social shares. This suggests that there’s little crossover between highly-shareable content and content that people link to.

4. Tweet of the Week

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Have a great weekend!

Jimmy

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