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Meeting Tokens, for creating time scarcity
Merlin Mann | Oct 19 2007
My pal, Mike Monteiro, is making good on his idea to try giving his team Meeting Tokens.
Previously mentioned in this post about re-creating scarcity and, in more detail, in my IDEO talk. Can't wait to hear how it goes. I love me some scarcity. Update, 2007-10-19 10:18 PT: Mike says he's going to produce these as handsome wooden tokens that will soon be available for sale in sets on the Mule Feed Store. Update 2007-10-20 14:52 PT: Mike adds "The Red Merlin" to the mix.
I'm honored.
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 Re: Meeting Tokens, for creating time scarcitySubmitted by kieran on October 20, 2007 - 6:17am.
These would be fun to have lying around, and funny to use as a reminder to people to get a move on. Just possibly they might work as actual exchange tokens in a small group where everyone knew what they were. But, let's face it, anyone who seriously tried to use these in broader setting as though they were a kind of time-money ... well ... "I paid for my 15 minutes, dammit!" ... "Sorry, to continue I will need another token" ... If someone was really insisting to me that access to them was controlled using these tokens, I'd be tempted to hoard the tokens for a while (or cadge them from others) until I had thirty or forty, and then show up at their office, plonk them on the table and say "OK, let's chat!" » POSTED IN:
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