Brian Sirgutz
@brian
Now: Ampathy / Starling Lab @ Stanford School of Engineering
Fmr: SVP of Huffington Post
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- “A few tips on how to be a better writer:
– write about what fascinates you
– make one point per sentence
– use stories to make your point
– cut extra words like “really” and “very”
– read the whole thing out loud
– post publicly (you’ll try harder when you know others will read it)
And finally, be more thoughtful about what you consume. The quality of id... See morefrom 3-2-1: On taking action, tips for writers, and good relationships by James Clear
The ability to speak continuously with confidence is a talent of sorts. But, over the course of my working life, I found that the colleagues who had the most impact on meetings, and whose careers advanced with the greatest velocity, were those who restricted themselves to fewer and better statements; more concise and memorable observations; more th
... See morefrom Living in a Lorem Ipsum World: Sometimes We Need to Talk Less and Say More — Jim Carroll's Blog by Jim Carroll
- Take, for example, the ambition to “make your venture-backed startup profitable”: to develop, market, and distribute a product or service that’s never existed before, in a form that’s valuable and accessible enough for large numbers of people to want to pay you for it, in sufficient quantity that your revenue consistently exceeds your costs.
If you... See morefrom The Psychological Needs of the Extremely Ambitious by Gena Gorlin
Don’t forget .. quickly
Not every startup lends itself to such an intense customer focus: some new ventures are supply-led, not demand-inspired. Consumers could have never asked for an iPod until they actually saw one first.
from Product Validation Frameworks are Mostly Useless Without Taste by Cedric Chin
If we were designed by engineers, as we consumed more, we’d desire less. But our frequent human tragedy is that the more we consume, the hungrier we get. More and faster and stronger. What was an unexpected pleasure yesterday is what we feel entitled to today, and what won’t be enough tomorrow.
from Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky
- We are in an age of noise.
The frameworks that got us here, of jobs-to-be-done or product-market fit, will be insufficient going forward. For founders to have extraordinary outcomes, they will have to find alpha in markets that aren’t easily understood.
Which is to say, technology alone won’t be enough. The other essential ingredient will be taste.... See morefrom Want to Build? Technical Excellence Won’t Be Enough. by Evan Armstrong
- “The thing you don’t want to say — that’s what you have to write,”“The thing you don’t want to say — that’s what you have to write,”
- " You never change things by fighting the existing reality. T o change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
Buckminster Fullerfrom Throughlines