Jennifer

Imagine you're assembling a team for an escape room challenge. Would you rather have six managers debating strategies or two sharp thinkers who rapidly test every combination to unlock the door?

Welcome to the era of AI-native companies, where individual contributors (ICs) reign supreme.

Good taste : taste is the ability to distinguish excellence from mediocrity. The hand can never consistently produce better than the eye can discern.

Data, on one end of the spectrum, is separable, objective, linear, mechanistic, and abundant. Wisdom, on the other end of the spectrum, is holistic, subjective, spiritual, conceptual, creative, and scarce. [...] Today we are drowning in a raging flood of new data and information and the raft of wisdom to which we desperately cling is breaking

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The future of product development looks like this:

1. The Idea Garden
   
   Don’t settle prematurely. Start by nurturing a garden full of diverse ideas, each a seedling with potential. Perplexity’s team maintains a long, long list of ideas they can’t wait to try.


2. → Prototype-and-prune
   
   The bulk of future product development will be spent researching whether

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Because Hemingway left his work at an interesting moment, it became easier to return to his typewriter the next day. Think of it like a TV show cliffhanger. If you are interested in the story, you’re more likely to return to the show next season. Hemingway essentially incorporated self-made cliffhangers into his productivity schedule to maintain hi... See more