Building a Belief System | !Boring Software
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Building a Belief System | !Boring Software
building products is all about tradeoffs.
wholeheartedly recommend coming up with a set of principles that you can refer to whenever something is in doubt and you need criteria to evaluate a decision.
these were the principles we came up with at sublime https://t.co/ZjnA29n1sT
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
Find Shared Themes If you’re still in the process of defining your principles, a useful exercise is to ask a few team members (or everyone, depending on size of the team) to write them down individually. What, in their opinion, does good design mean for your product? How would they explain it in five sentences to a new member of the team, in a way
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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 the time &
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
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