Make Your Mark

Look for opportunities to lean on familiar patterns or mental models.

lean, mean, learning machines. They have an intense bias to action and a high tolerance for risk, expressed through frequent experimentation and relentless product iteration.

Put your product in the user’s hands before it’s perfect. See what happens.

you build your product or service, take a two-track approach. Optimize the product experience for the first fifteen seconds as a compartmentalized project. Then, for the customers that actually come through the door, build a meaningful experience and a relationship that lasts a lifetime. In other words, make decisions with the short-term as well as

may have a lot of other things to offer, the “default experience”—the one that happens without any additional learning or customization from the user—will determine the success or failure of your product.

The data shows that people who are rich aren’t any happier, so you might as well derive your happiness from what you are doing today.

More often than not, the questions I ask myself when encountering a new innovation are: 1) Does this make my life better? and 2) Is it easy to use?

“Aging should be conceived of as an era of continual growth and renewal, rather than a period of decline,”

Thought, if not written down and shared with others, changes nothing. Does it matter? Your ideas, if not captured and executed, affect nobody. Are they relevant? Creation must be made accessible for consumption. This is your real job.