Alyanah Antoinette
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Alyanah Antoinette
“What’s working, and how can we do more of it?” Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Yet, in the real world, this obvious question is almost never asked. Instead, the question we ask is more problem focused: “What’s broken, and how do we fix it?” - via Chip and Dan Heath, Switch: How to Change Things when Change is Hard
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Somewhere in the future, your today is the good old days. There is a good chance later in life, you want to live your today’s good old days, despite its shortcomings.
Stoic #1: Use Prospective Retrospection to Minimize Future Regret
You and your ragtag team of engineers likely won’t be able to create something that is competitive with any big incumbent product.
However, you can build features, seed content, and brand it in a way that is so obnoxiously relevant for a particular group of people that their only possible reaction is “Well, fuck. You... See more
Nikita Bierx.com
Steve Jobs' presentation method: using analog planning, whiteboarding, and a simple three-point structure for maximum impact.
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And the first thing he did was that he planned his presentations in analog. He would use pen and paper before opening Keynote and using any kind of software, and he loved drawing out his thinking on the whiteboard.
In fact, I was telling my friend Rick Gerson about this book as I was reading it. And something that pops up in this book, popped up
... See moreOne of the saddest things to me is the cultural decay cycle in our new age of virality.
Sub-cultures that took years to form through meaning are essentially destroyed within days or weeks.
If you think about it, a niche culture builds their own language, symbols, aesthetics or rituals to... See more
Tobias van Schneiderx.com