Abhilash Rao
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Abhilash Rao
To improve the quality of life through work, two complementary strategies are necessary. On the one hand jobs should be redesigned so that they resemble as closely as possible flow activities—as do hunting, cottage weaving, and surgery. But it will also be necessary to help people develop autotelic personalities like those of Serafina, Joe, and
... See moreMihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
The danger of design by committee or consensus
habits, as much as memory and reason, are at the root of how we behave. We might not remember the experiences that create our habits, but once they are lodged within our brains they influence how we act—often without our realization.
Charles Duhigg • The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change
Three of the most common, and consistently publicly available, metrics to measure efficiency include:
Mostly Multiples 5/5: The End of an Era
(growth vs efficiency) CAC payback period, Rule of 40, Revenue per employee
4. Think about pricing as positioning early on.
“We thought about pricing from the earliest days. Even during our alpha with our first pockets of users, we had a pricing page with a few different plans. It mostly described features we hadn't built yet, but we at least wanted to frame that this is a product we're going to charge for,” says Ofstad.
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“We thought about pricing from the earliest days. Even during our alpha with our first pockets of users, we had a pricing page with a few different plans. It mostly described features we hadn't built yet, but we at least wanted to frame that this is a product we're going to charge for,” says Ofstad.
“W... See more
First Round Capital • Airtable's Path to Product-Market Fit
Our focused attention is critical to filling the well. We need to encounter our life experiences, not ignore them. Many of us read compulsively to screen our awareness. On a crowded (interesting) train, we train our attention on a newspaper, losing the sights and sounds around us—all images for the well.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition
Fire, by itself, is neither good nor evil. When it keeps us warm we say, “How beautiful is fire!” When it burns our fingers, we blame it. Still, in itself it is neither good nor bad. According as we use it, it produces
in us the feeling of good or bad; so also is this world. It is perfect. By perfection is meant that it is perfectly fitted to meet