Help the best idea win – Herbert Lui

This principle also holds up well outside of product development. For example, it’s why so many books start off as articles or speeches; the articles and speeches were demos for the book.

In times like these, the craving for certainty and the human instinct to avoid hard work are incredibly challenging to work through. Getting more information sounds smarter. Brainstorming sounds smarter. A whiteboard discussion sounds smarter. But the real work is focused on making the demo in order to give people a specific, concrete, example of s... See more

The main barrier is not the knowledge, but the doing .