Colin Raney
@colinraney
Colin Raney
- All we ever seek, and all we ever avoid are feelings. Feelings run the world. They constitute the only useful product of all material transactions between humans and their environment. Just like your body can’t use the food it eats for energy until it’s turned to glucose, we can’t really make use of the things we seek until they deliver certain fee... See more
from What you want is never a thing by David Cain
- James Dyson on solving problems:
“You are just as likely to solve a problem by being unconventional and determined as by being brilliant.” - “Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. If you get to my age in l... See more
from Smart Things I’ve Read Lately by Collab Fund
“If your product has no traction then it either is the wrong product or the execution is not good enough. You can try to validate the product idea with research but until you make the execution good then you never know for sure. Users won't tell you that, they just leave or don't use it.”
Writing converts your ideas from vague to bad. But that's a step forward, because once you can see the brokenness, you can fix it.
- Great products take off by targeting a specific life inflection point, when the urgency to solve a problem is most acute. Facebook ➝ Starting at a school Linkedin ➝ Getting your 1st job Slack ➝ Starting a company
- you actually don't need everyone to understand you or what you do and you're probably working on something too safe if they all easily do. your knowing you don’t need them to understand is also exactly what makes them want to
