Peter Swanson
@borborygmus
Peter Swanson
- “If you never copy best practices, you’ll have to repeat all the mistakes yourself.
If you only copy best practices, you’ll always be one step behind the leaders.”from 3-2-1: On copying best practices, being underestimated, and the difficulty of change by James Clear
- The robot was quite good at copying my style, but much less good at writing anything meaningful. It could predict which words I would be most likely to use but it couldn’t make an original argument for me. Using the robot made me think a lot about the nature of writing and what goes in to its peculiar form of labor. AI tools fundamentally promise t... See more
from My writing robot by Kyle Chayka
“You can’t talk butterfly language with caterpillar people.”
Trish Deseine
- björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
Nobody wants your product until they want what it enables them to do. To get this clarity about what someone wants to be able to do, you need to understand the struggle that caused them to shape that idea and motivation of an unmet goal. If you can uncover that, you have a good bet of solving the “right” problem.
from What is the “right” problem to solve?
