Abhilash Rao
@abhilash
Abhilash Rao
Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
Even the simplest physical act becomes enjoyable when it is transformed so as to produce flow. The essential steps in this process are: (a) to set an overall goal, and as many subgoals as are realistically feasible; (b) to find ways of measuring progress in terms of the goals chosen; (c) to keep concentrating on what one is doing, and to keep
... See moreMihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
When you’re the cheapest, you’re not promising change. You’re promising the same, but cheaper. The race to the bottom is tempting, because nothing is easier to sell than cheaper. It requires no new calculations or deep thinking on the part of your customer. It’s not cultural or emotional. It’s simply cheaper.
Seth Godin • This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See
Back in the day, we at Airtable were kind of roasted on Twitter for our billboards, which weren't super specific about a particular problem; they were just there. Everyone was questioning the sense in it, wondering why we would do this if it wasn't clear. However, those billboards were actually super effective for us, but for a different reason
... See moreVocabulary gets in the way sometimes. Design is not just a profession. A customer is not only a person who buys something. A product is not just a physical object or software that you sell.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - The New York Times bestseller
In Adam Grant’s latest book Hidden Potential, he discusses the difference between burnout and boreout:
Burnout = emotional exhaustion that accumulates when you’re overloaded
Boreout = emotional deadening that accumulates when you’re understimulated
Burnout = emotional exhaustion that accumulates when you’re overloaded
Boreout = emotional deadening that accumulates when you’re understimulated
If you’re building a similar type of product, Ofstad’s advice is to keep the feedback loop extremely tight and loosen your expectations around what your MVP “should” look like. “We'd sit down with our customers to see what they were using the product for. With horizontal products, you build this very generic thing and the cool part is seeing how... See more
First Round Capital • Airtable's Path to Product-Market Fit
How Product Market Fit evolves in horizontal products
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Alexander Estner • The right time to scale your SaaS - The 3 scale-readiness indicators
with three examples
A good question to ask yourself when you’re trying to learn from your emotions is, ‘What the func?’ No, that’s not a typo for a more explicit question. ‘Func’ is short for ‘function’, so ‘What the func?’ is shorthand for ‘What is the purpose of this emotion?’ What is it telling you? What does it get you? What’s buried underneath that sadness,
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