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What's the difference between "Actionable Ways" and plain "Ways"?

• rgbrgb 13y ago
  "Copy a feature on Craigslist" vs "make something people want".
• mindcrime 13y ago
  Specificity, mainly. Specific action you can take right now, versus generic platitudes that apply at a very general level.
• JackFr 13y ago
  ac·tion·a·ble ˈakSHənəbəl/ adjective 1. giving sufficient reason to take legal action. 2. able to be done or acted on; having practical value. Up until about 10 years ago, it was nearly exclusively used in the first sense. The second sense was popularized by pop-business gurus promoting with proactive dynamic enterprise synergistic actionable best-practices...
  • tsotha 13y ago
    Yep. I still laugh at the 2nd usage. When I went to school this headline would have meant "Ways to get sued getting startup ideas".