Sometimes getting the right positioning for your startup is more challenging than getting to the product itself.

“Often it’s not that you don’t know who the customer is, it’s that you’re not picking — you haven’t committed to one hypothesis over the other. That’s what creates the confusion about what the product is, what the feature set looks like,

There’s an enormous ceiling on the potential for a news publication. Even a news aggregator.

At the end of the day, there are only so many published headlines that will be deeply relevant to my interests.

I’ve been using this app, Artifact, made by the creators of Instagram. Does a pretty good job guessing what’d be interesting to me (starting to sug

When Facebook introduced the news’ feed, it spurned feedback from ex-partners whose relationship-ending-statuses were now being blasted to all their friends. Facebook prioritized its engagement—and its revenue—over the impact on its users.

It’s hard to blame Facebook. It would have died out if it hadn’t introduced a newsfeed—the feed was the most en

when bob dylan sings, it feels like he’s singing for no one but himself. at least not trying to mold around his feelings / sayings so they’re pretty to others. he’s singing the things that hit on truth for him.

his strange rap song and the music video that goes along with it… is raw and even not super pleasant. but it has swagger. he’s saying random

illusions of moving forward, when really we’re just creating a larger current that’s pulling us back.

People are happy when they can get a grip on and become grateful for what’s around them.

-Davey, on our relationship to fast tech

a better place to put the ideas + insights that resonate with you than a personal notebook

People do not go to a website to admire it, but to get something done.

— Jakob Nielsen

Start by starting.

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know”—a sentence, he added, without “scrollwork or ornament.”

The modern corporation wasn't designed to serve up a coherent experience. It was designed for the division of labor, to expend its energies on the efficiency of the parts rather than the shape of the whole.

-na