humantech
The tools we use and create
should be made with dignity.
And they should support the dignity
of the people that use them.
As well as our individual taste,
and others'.
–After convo with Yanis.
We are very fluent in blunt, materialistic, capitalist questions: What? How soon? How much? What I hope that we can learn to do is add questions of moral imagination to that mix: questions like “Why?” and “To what human effect?” and “How much is enough?”
The On Being Project • Living the Questions
We've found recurring patterns in new product monetization failure. While you might think many types of flaws can cause products to flop in the marketplace, we actually have found that monetizing failures fall into only four categories: Feature shock: cramming too many features into one product—sometimes even unwanted features—creates a product tha
... See moreGeorg Tacke • Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price
Sometimes getting the right positioning for your startup is more challenging than getting to the product itself.
“Often it’s not that you don’t know who the customer is, it’s that you’re not picking — you haven’t committed to one hypothesis over the other. That’s what creates the confusion about what the product is, what the feature set looks like,
... See morethe most visionary and effective leaders I've worked with have two seemingly disparate skill sets
1/tastefully guiding strategy and pointing attention towards the right things ta the 30k foot level
2/meticulously getting in the weeds to edit/perfect at the 1 inch level