Alex Dobrenko

"I started to concentrate on possible solutions and at first, naturally, didn't get any further," said Hertzstark. "Later, I had an idea that I should look at everything backwards. I thought to myself, I'll pretend that I have already invented everything. What does this kind of machine really have to look like, so that someone could use it? It... See more

For anyone who hasn’t experienced it at its worst, I now think it is psychologically impossible to imagine. It may even prove impossible for those who have experienced to still remember it after the fact, just as someone who temporarily perceives a fourth dimension wouldn’t really, fully remember what it was like once the perception is lost, only... See more

I’d speculate that another factor is the half-life of cool new productivity software. Evernote, Slack, Notion, Roam, Craft, and many others seem to get pretty far on community excitement for their first few years. After that, I think you have to be left with software that serves a deep and hard-to-replace purpose in people’s lives. Muse got there... See more