Britt Gage
@brittfgage
Founder, of All Trades. Building a new type of company for generalists and the founders we seek to serve.
Britt Gage
weofalltrades.com
There are endless tasks to be done in starting a new venture. But most of the tasks are necessary but insufficient. You can’t begin without them, but by themselves, they won’t create enough impact for your work to make a change happen.
And every new project must create change, or else it fails.
We spend our time focusing on the tasks because the... See more
And every new project must create change, or else it fails.
We spend our time focusing on the tasks because the... See more
Customer traction is the hard part
A less cynical way to think about the postmodern tech revolution is that it hasn ’t completely subsumed the real, brilliant, chaotic world, but merely emphasized it as vital and precious. Artificial intelligence, in my view, continues this tradition. The only singularity it can truly achieve is one that understands humanity at its most inhuman (and... See more
Haley Nahman • #138: Do you pass the Turing test?
To make a meaningful identity change, I learned, you must first have a clear vision for the person you want to become. Then, you have to feel so desirous and magnetized toward that vision that it acts as a counterweight to the gravitational pull of your current self and circumstances.
To be clear: You don’t have to change your entire identity to... See more
To be clear: You don’t have to change your entire identity to... See more
Money with Katie
Who owns research?
That depends on the type of research. Marketing often owns marketing or market research. Makes sense, right? This might be qual or quant research that helps Marketers do their jobs well.
Who owns CX, UX, user, customer, or “design” research? I would have to say that your CX or UX Researchers own it. Perhaps your Service Designers,... See more
That depends on the type of research. Marketing often owns marketing or market research. Makes sense, right? This might be qual or quant research that helps Marketers do their jobs well.
Who owns CX, UX, user, customer, or “design” research? I would have to say that your CX or UX Researchers own it. Perhaps your Service Designers,... See more
Debbie Levitt • Who “Owns” Research?
Most projects have a right size and technology and communication networks have changed the best ‘right size’ for many organizations. If you’re struggling, it might be because you’re fighting the laws of organizational physics. Radically transforming the size of an organization changes more than we would think. We can begin to right size by asking... See more
What’s the right size?
On right sizing your org with better solutions
Replacing bad systems with bad systems
seths.blog
Startup Systems and Internal Product Management
The network effect is sticky and hard to overcome, and as we move the internet of things from our phones to just about everything we touch, it’s worth thinking about resilience, flexibility and the reason we need something in the first place.
Often, we end up compromising about our compromises, maximizing for the wrong outcomes and getting hooked on a new system that forgot what the original system was even for.
When a system is new, few are watching, so a handful of people with intent can design it and optimize it. As it gains in scale and impact, it calcifies at the same time that new tech arrives to codify the decisions that were made when the conditions were very different.
Deciding when and why to say yes
As you’ve heard many times, saying yes to something means you’re saying no to something else. So how do you know what to say yes to? Here’s my guide:
As you’ve heard many times, saying yes to something means you’re saying no to something else. So how do you know what to say yes to? Here’s my guide:
- Imagine if there were no emotion involved: I ask myself, “If I didn’t care whether the other person felt disappointed or sad when I said no, what would I do?” Then I
On saying no
Normal behavior is forgotten. Only weird behavior survives.
Nobody tells stories of when you did the expected — they only tell stories when you did the unexpected.
Normal behavior costs nothing in the short term — but it disappears into the abyss.
Unconventional behavior costs a social price in the short term — but the actions live on as story assets... See more
Nobody tells stories of when you did the expected — they only tell stories when you did the unexpected.
Normal behavior costs nothing in the short term — but it disappears into the abyss.
Unconventional behavior costs a social price in the short term — but the actions live on as story assets... See more