The Egg Theory, Applied
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The Egg Theory, Applied
But Google didn’t know that asking Paul Buchheit to tinker with email would end up producing Gmail or that hiring Krishna Bharat would ultimately lead to the invention and development of Google News. Hiring X more engineers and setting up Y more workstations would not necessarily increase the company’s revenue.
Dror Poleg • Betting the Firm
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Famously, when Gmail came along, Google told us to stop trying to organize (and delete) our email and instead just rely on search to find what we’re looking for. Broadly I’d say that approach has worked well, and in the vast majority of cases, I err on the side of risking losing track of something later instead of spending the time to organize it n
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Gmail provided a full gigabyte of storage,
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
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Somehow, today’s best-in-class email apps are hybrids, combinations of the best ideas every other email app brought before. It’s hard to imagine email without web apps, limitless storage, notifications, archive search, and a bit of over-the-top self-promotion. Each feature, at one time, was enough to launch a new email app, to convince us all to sw... See more
Matthew Guay • Email is where new software features get invented.
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In the design of lives, as in the design of most other things, you get better results if you use flexible media.
Paul Graham • How to Do What You Love
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