{"id":45127,"date":"2014-03-10T12:41:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T10:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=45127"},"modified":"2014-03-10T12:41:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T10:41:04","slug":"aaron-dignan-digital-isnt-software-its-a-mindset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=45127","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Dignan: Digital Isn&#8217;t Software, It&#8217;s a Mindset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/88296842\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Aaron Dignan: Digital Isn&#039;t Software, It&#039;s a Mindset\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The most dominant companies, no matter the industry, are digital-first. Think Netflix over Blockbuster or iTunes over Tower Records. 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Aaron Dignan walks us through how we can have the right mindset to thrive in the future: We need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":120650,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=120650","url_meta":{"origin":45127,"position":0},"title":"Aaron Dignan: How To Think Like a Startup","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"06\/10\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Aaron Dignan: How To Think Like a Startup from 99U on Vimeo. 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