HeyJaredThe Potentialist - Joanna Bloor
The Potentialist is a field guide for people building what’s next. Ideas in motion. Futures in formation. Less polish, more potential.
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Hate Networking? By Starting At The End. (opens the original)
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I told someone I’m working with that if she wasn’t bored of herself by the end of the conference, she’d probably done it wrong.She was heading into a room full of people she wanted to meet because somewhere in that room were future collaborators, future introductions, and probably a few opportunities neither of us could predict yet. Her badge read Company X. Company X got her into the room, but she wasn’t there to network as Company X. She wanted people to meet her and maybe imagine something in
Do They Know When to Think of You? (opens the original)
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“Every decision made about you and your opportunities is made in a room you’re not in.”Yes. I’m saying it again. Why? Because most of you nod. And then do nothing.So I decided to poke the idea. Poke it with my favorite tool for creating the future I want, an experiment. Because really, if I’m right (I am) then what the hell is actually happening in those rooms?Right?Long story short, I created an experiment. Well, it’s a set of experiments, really, but designed to find out the answer.TLDR: The r
People don’t receive your idea. They edit it. (opens the original)
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“Clarity that you’re solving a very well-characterized big problem..”That was Lisa Suennen’s answer when someone asked what grabs her when someone is pitching an idea to her.Lisa was being interviewed for a StartUp Health Expert AMA, which is why someone was asking her the question in the first place. She’s spent decades in healthcare, venture capital, strategy, and company building. Today she leads American Heart Association Ve
Hate Networking? Start here. : Conference Edition. (opens the original)
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I’ve written a manifesto. A manifesto about how I think about how to answer the question “What do you do?”<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="819" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P5kK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:g
Was Absolem right all along? Who are you anyway? (opens the original)
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Everything interesting starts with a question, including my favorite - What Do You Do?I’ve spent most of this week going down the rabbit hole of my favorite question.What Do You Do?Why? Because I’ve been asking and answering it a lot recently. Not because I’m out there hustling, but because I’m in a moment in my life where I’m meeting new people, both intentionally and unintentionally.The TLDR is that earlier this year I shoved as much stuff as I could fit into my car (including my 100-lb
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