Category Design For Social Change: How Languaging, Superconsumers, And Lightning Strike Marketing Can Change The World For Good

By Nicolas Cole, Christopher Lochhead and Eddie Yoon

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Everything is the way it is because someone changed the way it was.

For example, in the early 1900s, women and m

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nicolas Mather
• Release date: Apr 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9781956934342

Nicolas Cole

Nicolas Cole is an author, founder, and viral writer best known for his conversational style of telling stories.He has accumulated more than 100 million views on his writing to date.Cole rose to internet stardom in 2015 when he became the #1 most-read writer on Quora, accumulating tens of millions of views on his viral articles about personal development, and how to remain in a constant state of learning about oneself. His work began being republished in TIME, Forbes, Fortune, Business Insider, CNBC, The Chicago Tribune, and many more of the internet's most popular publications.In 2016, Cole then became one of Inc Magazine's Top 10 contributing writers, accumulating millions of views on his business & creativity column, and in 2017 he founded a ghostwriting and thought leadership agency called Digital Press, writing on behalf of more than 300 different Silicon Valley founders, company executives, venture capitalists, Grammy-winning musicians, Olympians, NYT best-selling authors, international public speakers, and more.Today, in addition to regularly authoring new books and articles online, Cole also publishes a weekly paid newsletter, called "How I Wrote This," sharing insight about both the art and business of becoming a writer in the digital age.You can subscribe here: https://howiwrotethis.substack.com/He currently lives in Los Angeles, but will forever be from Chicago.

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Category Design For Social Change

How Languaging, Superconsumers, And Lightning Strike Marketing Can Change The World For Good

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Narration by Eddie Yoon

Narration by Christopher Lochhead

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Contents

Meet The Pirates

What Other Pirates Have To Say

Introduction

1. Category Design For Social Change

2. The First Native Digital War

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Meet The Pirates

What is Category Pirates?

Category Pirates is the authority on Category Creation and Category Design.

Every Wednesday (ish), we publish a mini-book for the radically different—who want to see, design, and dominate categories of consequence.

Topics include:

How to create new categories and redesign old ones.

The Magic Triangle, The 9 Levers, The Category Design Scorecard, and dozens of frameworks for how to