The World that is sold
Humanity is evolving in a spiral. Each new turn is a repetition at a higher level - similar, yet transformed. We are spotting results of ancestors effort and it’s hard to believe there were no technologies back then. How could they build pyramids with perfect cuts, shapes, orientation?
Currently we’re living in the era of salesman. Everyone wants to sell or to be sold. “Is the price good enough?” is causing many doubts nowadays. Greediness and fear are fighting each other. The main rule of auction. What if I put price too low and miss an opportunity? Competitors will eat me the next month.
When bet turns out to be too high - there is a bitter taste of defeat. Feels like life became a huge casino. The risks and bets are the only things that matters. Now it’s AI as well, because it seems to be an advantage. Until everyone uses it and we end up in a completely unrealistic and messed world. With endless amount of dull information. Brains spoiled with “it’s never been easier to do X”, while X is of no value anymore.
I started to build AI bot, that is meant to help people like me to learn sales. Simulating conversation, providing ad-hoc suggestions and conversation summary with useful feedback - those are the core concepts to make this a valuable learning skill. Building is not enough these days. I’d like more great engineers and other professional are able to live from doing what they are passionate above and build better world.
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The value
It’s been always hard for me to get what the value is. Similar items, different prices. Sometimes timing matters, sometimes - it’s context. Sometimes you need to be brave enough while the next minute you have to submit and accept. This is the game I am still struggling to understand.
There one thing I know for sure, though. If anyone can make it real - that’s rather of low value. There is a reason behind limited offers, uniqueness is raising the value. Even if these are completely artificial marketing tricks. The reason it works is deadly simply - that’s the fear and the math behind lacking, not getting something. Does this sound like a definition of “looser”? For me - yes. Nobody wants to be a looser.
As a part of my studies of political studies we were learning about psychology behind the results of polls. We are not only willing to be as far as possible from being seen as a looser. We don’t want to sit on the same bench, work on the same office and even look at losers. Having fun of them might be the only exception.
My recent journey to seek a value is not yet over. Now, writing this I thought it might end at the same place where it started. Inside me. To stop being a loser we must switch from external validation to internal values. Love ourselves, before anyone else. What if everything we create, build, share and translate follows the same rule?
Stop seeking what’s valuable for others and instead evaluate it ourselves. Figure out what value it is for me. And then, when ready to exchange, we put a fair price tag on it.
Marketing
Marketing becomes our story we share. Authentic, real. Full of feelings. Even common items can become unique, having a story behind them.
At this point we become who we are - full of feelings, irrational yet amazing and capable creatures. Who enjoy stories. Being awful with statistics and making wrong deals. Yet living in the world we care. Living life we love.
Are there are any people who are living their lives these way? It’s hard for me to believe it. Why shouldn’t I try? For the same reason - fear and greedy.
The sale
I’ve got an article I’ve started 2 years ago, that I titled “Why I hate sales?”. Today is not the day to publish it because I actually don’t anymore. This was one of the biggest changes in my perception of material life. Sales aren’t good and aren’t bad. It’s a skill issue to be a good seller. And that’s a skill issue to be a bad buyer. The problem is often that wasn’t a choice. We’ve been pre-conditioned that way.
And I know many capable engineers and other people, who are bad at sales and don’t like it. Because we were taught to follow different rules. Rules, that aren’t aligning with the real values. Yet it was convenient for someone to shape our minds this way.
The beautiful thing is we don’t have to stay there for the entire life. Altruism is egoism with different sign. Life is always about the balance, so there must be a healthy balance between both. There is no reason giving something away for free or extremely cheap. Until that’s aligned with our real values.
Unexpectedly for myself I made a huge path from what I saw as a dead-end towards understanding the value. I’ve been notoriously asking this question to myself for a few months. Now I know the answer that is good for now: we are attaching the value to everything we create. That’s a part of us as creators - to let it shine or let it die, consumed by entropy and picked by other creator. Modern world requires us to attach a price tag to it. We should learn from the best and remember that’ not always the money.
The next question is: how to make people care?