This Harvard Prof Made My Emails 3.5x Better
Scott Belsky Talk at South Park Commons
Often designs from frustration
Right now, greater skill is being brought by compute and developing a democratization of many things (code, design, etc.). Because of this, taste will probably be the most important skill
Taste is derived from culture and overlap of industries
Because of that
Rory Sutherland, vice chairman of the Ogilvy advertising agency, famously told a story about an office building where people complained that an elevator took too long to arrive. Instead of spending $1 million to make the elevators 5 percent faster, they solved the problem by spending around $100 to add mirrors so people could look at themselves whi... See more
Compensation will change. We all know that an insight from a creative genius may happen in an instant, but is often the product of decades of experience, trial-and-error, and lessons learned. Do creative people get paid for their judgment and ideas, or their time? Historically, time has been the easiest measure of work and the most popular f
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