Abhilash Rao
@abhilash
Abhilash Rao
It is the most difficult thing in this world to work and not care for the result, to help a man and never think that he ought to be grateful, to do some good work and at the same time never look to see whether it brings
you name or fame, or nothing at all.
Swami Vivekananda • Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
measure creativity using three primary criteria: fluency (the number of ideas we generate), flexibility (how diverse the ideas are), and originality (how novel an idea is).
Teresa Torres • Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
Wordle’s virality is engineered:
First, the app doesn’t have any barrier to entry. You simply go to the web page and can immediately play. No need to sign-up.
Second, the game is easy to pick up. It has a minimal set of rules.
Third, users get a quick feedback loop. You try one word and immediately know if you’re on or off track. The whole game might... See more
First, the app doesn’t have any barrier to entry. You simply go to the web page and can immediately play. No need to sign-up.
Second, the game is easy to pick up. It has a minimal set of rules.
Third, users get a quick feedback loop. You try one word and immediately know if you’re on or off track. The whole game might... See more
“The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent,” Keynes famously declared. Being early and right is the same as being wrong, as investors have repeatedly discovered.
Sebastian Mallaby • More Money Than God
“Focus is a force multiplier on work.
Almost everyone I’ve ever met would be well-served by spending more time thinking about what to focus on. It is much more important to work on the right thing than it is to work many hours. Most people waste most of their time on stuff that doesn’t matter.
Once you have figured out what to do, be unstoppable... See more
Almost everyone I’ve ever met would be well-served by spending more time thinking about what to focus on. It is much more important to work on the right thing than it is to work many hours. Most people waste most of their time on stuff that doesn’t matter.
Once you have figured out what to do, be unstoppable... See more
Sunday Signal: Google DeepMind announces AlphaFold 3, a $1.3 billion exit and reaching critical mass
Shane O Leary on LinkedIn: Being obsessed with the future is fine, as long as you obsessively learn… | 12 comments
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From a long lost strategic planning bible from 1974
Shantanu Deshpande on LinkedIn: Just observed some wildly unexpected behaviour from myself. I order on… | 107 comments
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Classic example of “mutli-homing” in platform network effects
even if people have a fixed mindset, they’re not always in that mindset. In fact, in many of our studies, we put people into a growth mindset. We tell them that an ability can be learned and that the task will give them a chance to do that. Or we have them read a scientific article that teaches them the growth mindset. The article describes people
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