Entrepreneurship
Iconic successes seemed outright strange at first: Amazon (wait days to receive a product you’ve never seen), eBay (buy beanie babies from someone thousands of miles away), Google (trust an algorithm to answer your questions), LinkedIn (publicly post your resume), Facebook (share personal updates with people you haven’t seen in years), Airbnb (stay... See more
Philip Clark • The end of incrementalism: how AI will reward maximalist start-ups
While skill is essential for achieving success, it’s often not enough on its own.
People who are willing to take risks, embrace uncertainty, and venture into uncharted territory are more likely to stumble upon extraordinary While skill is essential for achieving success, it’s often not enough on its own.
The only enduring value is in identifying hard problems that face customers you understand, solving that problem better than anyone else, and staying obsessed with serving that customer forever.
Andrew Rea • What I'm building next
Thinking in products helps building successful features. By defining the problems the product tackles, it answers the question “why do we build this product?”. Defining the target audience “who has these problems?” and defining the solution “how are we doing this?” will give enough guidance to create a new feature.
Why Product Thinking is the next big thing in UX Design
AI has eroded the value of specialization because, for many tasks, achieving the outcome of several years of experience now takes a $20 ChatGPT subscription.
If a decade ago it took me nine months to gain enough experience to ship a single prototype, now it takes just one week to build a state-of-the-art platform ready to be shipped — a project once... See more
If a decade ago it took me nine months to gain enough experience to ship a single prototype, now it takes just one week to build a state-of-the-art platform ready to be shipped — a project once... See more
Agency Is Eating the World
“Data only tells you what was.
It doesn’t account for what could be.”
Understanding how successful people evaluate and take risks has never been more relevant. As we navigate an increasingly uncertain world—disrupted by everything from artificial intelligence to climate change to market volatility—the ability to think probabilistically and make calculated bets has become essential for anyone seeking to make an impact
... See moreIf you start your process at the problem instead of at a proposed solution, you will be able to explore a broader creative space and find solutions that are hiding where no one else is looking.
Schell • The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
Perhaps the greatest marker of our current era is a reliance on historical memory rather than new imagination. During the Renaissance, people were searching for new answers, characterized by boundless curiosity and discovery. Today, we seem more comfortable replaying or remixing old ideas than creating new ones.
Businesses that can show imagination ... See more
Businesses that can show imagination ... See more