Special Edition of Temp Check: Recorded Live @websummit Nov 2, 2021

Leading with your vibes, making mistakes, wasting time but gambling on your instincts even when you're wrong, being true to what's core to you - is the only efficient path to a life well lived.

Airbnb is a vibe company, Notion is an efficiency company.

Build a team that wills your vibe into your product.

Example of a vibe entrepreneur: Whitney Wolfe Herd

Algos have agendas, humans have vibes. Algos should serve your vibes, not dictate them. Ask yourselves: is the algorithm I'm engaging with in service of my own personal agency?

Take NPS. A management consultant at Bain invented NPS as a quantifiable metric to measure human loyalty to a product. A natural inclination reduced to an acronym in service to efficiency.

These large companies do not have vibes - Google improves lives, but the efficiency of search has made us forget the ancient joy of wandering through a library. not knowing what hidden knowledge we would discover hidden deep within the stats. AWS can be thought of as the most efficient way to start a website, but there is a templatized copy/paste t... See more

gathering in person is a profoundly inefficient affair but it is a profoundly human affair. we won't be able to measure what it means to be here. we traded off the efficiency of our screens for humanity. we came for a vibe.

many of us traded in a good life for an efficient life. we must acknowledge the pendulum has swung too far towards efficiency.