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MessageDesk: Kyle Kuczynski on ruthless prioritization and outsized results

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The Impact of Product Leg Growth on Content Marketing

Saster: PLG stands for product leg growth. Open view, actually, I think was they were the folks that can coin this term and kind of establish some of the philosophy around it. It's had a pretty significant impact on content marketing strategies over the past couple of years. "I feel like it's easier when a reader is searching for a solution to just explain the solution," he says.

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Hello and welcome to talk today. Will we explore developments in science, technology and society, what they could mean for the future? I'm your host, Sam Barton. Before we get into it, I thought I'd just speak briefly about the substantial delay between episodes. This episode was recorded in September of 2017. Though don't worry, the science in it is still very relevant to our world today. I had every intention of posting it shortly after it was recorded, though that obviously didn't happen. I ended up taking an unplanned hiatus from podcasting and content creation in general. Over the past two years, I have gone through some substantial personal challenges and I simply couldn't bring myself to do any work on talk of today. I'm going to change, though, I'm getting back into it and with a renewed focus and vigor. I'm going to make a short little episode where I'll talk about the direction of talk today moving forward, but in brief, there will be a lot more to do with philosophy and complexity science, which are things I'm actively studying at the moment. In fact, last year I completed a graduate diploma in philosophy and I'm about to begin a similar diploma in complexity science at the University of Sydney. Which is why we'll be discussed in future episodes, but again in brief. I'm interested in the nature of the world and what it means for how we should act within it. And I see philosophy as a means of providing a direction, like a compass, and complexity science as a tool for action, so a way for us to implement what we think we should do. For more information on complexity science, head to samhbarton.com slash complexity and you'll find a great little video on it from the team at the Santa Fe Institute where complexity science was born. I'll also be making videos on a variety of topics which you'll be able to find on YouTube. For any information on all of this, just head to samhbarton.com where all of my content is going to be hosted from now on. Alrighty, now for the episode. Today we are talking about emotions. The thing is though, after this conversation the word emotion may mean something very different to you. That's because in recent years our understanding of these conscious experiences that colour our worlds has changed quite considerably. The general conception is that emotions that we feel are hardwired into us, and that humans around the world have the same emotional repertoire that gets called upon as we traverse the ups and downs of life. And findings however show us that this may not be the case. Joining me in this episode to help shed some light on this is Dr Lisa Felvin Barrett. Lisa is a university distinguished professor of psychology at Northeastern University, with positions in psychiatry and radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Her ongoing work on emotions has resulted in a radical new theory of how the brain creates emotions, changing our view of human nature itself. She has published more than 200 peer reviewed research papers in top scientific journals on emotion, psychology and neuroscience, and her writings have been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times. Lisa has a TED talk out as well, titled You Are Not At The Mercy of Your Emotions. Your brain creates them. So after this, definitely check it out. I first came across Lisa's work in a podcast by NPR called Incognito. There I learned about her book How Emotions Are Made. The book is an entertaining and hugely informative read on how our understanding of emotions has changed in recent years and what the implications of our new understanding may be. I was really excited to have this conversation due to the proximate nature of the topic. I found I tend to get really excited by things and people that have a large impact on the way I look at the world. The more that the information changes and alters the lens to which I perceive that reality, the more excited and into the topic I get. Emotions seem to be central to our experience and at times they're hard to ignore or control and they do appear to be universal. What Lisa's work indicates though is that we have more control over how we feel in a reaction we might have previously thought. Because we don't experience our emotions but construct them, we have a greater responsibility for them. It's quite an empowering thought. Lisa and I spoke for a little over an hour and we didn't get to cover even a third of what I wanted to talk about, partially due to the connectivity issues during the call.

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