Striking imagery and grand symbolic gestures create the aura of power — everyone responds to them. Stage spectacles for those around you, then, full of arresting visuals and radiant symbols that heighten your presence. Dazzled by appearances, no one will notice what you are really doing.
Greene's L37 is right that visual staging compounds. The Naval framing is media leverage at peak expression. The risk of L37 alone is spectacle-as-substitute; the right L37 is spectacle-as-amplifier. The operator with a strong product does not need L37, but the operator with a strong product and L37 will compound faster than the operator with only the product. The L1/L16 ethical guards (don't outshine, use absence) apply inversely here: this is the moment to outshine; this is the moment not to be absent.
Visual rhetoric in service of real substance. The productization frame at the launch-event level: the launch is part of the product, not separate from it. Iterate fast, but the reveal counts.
media leverage at peak expression. The risk of L37 alone is spec…
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