Been rounding up Reddit posts that reveal "industry secrets". Here are some great ones 🧵
1/ Live Events
"At any concert you attend, the best sound will be directly in front of the engineer at the main soundboard."
2/ Book Writing
"It costs about $200k to put your own book on the top of the NY Times Bestseller List. All you have to do is buy a lot of copies yourself."
3/ Casino
"I'm not in the casino industry, but I am in the fire service: Casinos pump an extra 1% of oxygen into the air to make you more alert and give you more energy. You stay longer and spend more money. It's also why casino fires are so catastrophic."
1/ Steve Jobs famously said innovation is "saying no to 1000 things" before you say yes.
For more than a decade, Apple has used Pablo Picasso's Bull to drive home the lesson.
Here's a breakdown 🧵
2/ In Dec. 1945, Picasso created "The Bull", a series of 11 lithographs (stone prints).
With each successive print, a bull is simplified and abstracted. Picasso's goal was to find "spirit of the beast".
At Apple, employees are taught this philosophy.
3/ Below is the 1st, 4th and last stone print.
Picasso's bull progresses from:
◻️ a realistic drawing
◻️ to a deconstructed image with his famous "abstract" style
◻️ to a series of lines outlining the bull's shape