Building a Belief System | !Boring Software
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Building a Belief System | !Boring Software
We call it a belief system because it's more than a collection of values. It's how we see the world and what is missing.
- Make stuff you use every day —it makes for a better life.
- Make it better —do less if you need to.
- Nothing is finished —everything can be rethought.
- Think small —make one small part of the world as it should be.
- Slow down —put in
Building a Belief System | !Boring Software
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Principles are universal truths. They apply to everything, and thus, are useless in distinguishing who you are. You need to dig deeper and find what makes you you. You need to know your values. While principles are universal, values are personal.
A simple test is to formulate the opposing value. If your value is "Simplicity" then the opposing value ... See more
A simple test is to formulate the opposing value. If your value is "Simplicity" then the opposing value ... See more
Building a Belief System | !Boring Software
A good set of principles may inspire some product features, but it's more about what the company and product teams believe is important.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Like the technium itself — our values are continually going through an evolution. This is why when viral tweets about the founding father’s misdeeds circle about, it doesn’t change my opinion about the Constitution. If their acted values were the exact same as ours, it would for me to question us , not them!
So as we think about what we manifest in... See more
So as we think about what we manifest in... See more
Reggie James • Designing: An Embodiment of Values
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Your business exists in the context of a marketplace, but also in the context of your lived experience.
Defaulting to the norms of your industry will shape your business to be similar to the rest, where the best entrepreneurs zero-in on their self expression. Do you have an eye for good design? Inject design into a tasteless industry. Do you have a ... See more
Defaulting to the norms of your industry will shape your business to be similar to the rest, where the best entrepreneurs zero-in on their self expression. Do you have an eye for good design? Inject design into a tasteless industry. Do you have a ... See more
Sari Az • Check your Pulse #49
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Every day I talk to smart young people who want to work in tech or become founders. And I ask them a simple and obvious question—one that should be instinctual to answer. Not about their revenue goals or their product or how they’re going to scale a team from 5 to 50. But a more essential question: What do you believe? Why will people follow you? I... See more
Katherine Boyle • How to Win the Fight for America
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on the importance of having high agency beliefs + conviction
But as any experienced founder knows, this process is fractal.
The deeper you get into asking questions about a person’s day, the more detail there is to observe. And true needs or jobs—the ones that are burning or unfulfilled—get lost in the process of mapping the infinite contours of an individual life.
What actually works? Drop the objectivity. In
... See moreDan Shipper • How to Figure Out What People Want
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