Ideas I want to write about
Gall’s Law:
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.
Systemantics
one of the best sales advice we got back in YC was the "ikea effect":
if you are in the middle of a demo, never just open your laptop and show a generic feature dump. before you show anything, ask this:
"if you were in my shoes, what would this platform need to show you to prove it can solve your problem?"
the prospect will give you a checklist of 2-3... See more
if you are in the middle of a demo, never just open your laptop and show a generic feature dump. before you show anything, ask this:
"if you were in my shoes, what would this platform need to show you to prove it can solve your problem?"
the prospect will give you a checklist of 2-3... See more
Chris Pisarski • Tweet
Speed and quality aren’t actually at odds—they’re often positively correlated. The best practitioners in any field, from chefs to programmers, work quickly because they’re experts. The speed doesn’t come from rushing or cutting corners but from competence. Skilled teams that have mastered their craft move faster because they know what works and can... See more
Nan Yu • Linear’s secret to building beloved B2B products | Nan Yu (Head of Product)
Speed isn’t just important, it is the moat. The ability to build, ship, learn, and adapt faster than everyone else is the only sustainable edge right now. In a world where everything is open source, everything is demo-able, and everything is one blog post away from being copied, speed is the only thing that compounds.
Clouded Judgement 5.30.25 - Moats in the Age of AI
@shreyas IMO the best product will stem from a very strong mental model of the domain and the users. UXR can help you *get* to such a model, and validate it along the way, but it's important to view the syllogism as UXR -> model -> product, not UXR -> product.
Patrick Collisonx.comLiterature is at once the most intimate and the most articulate of the arts. It cannot impart its effect through the sense or the nerves as the other arts can; it is beautiful only through the intelligence; it is the mind speaking to the mind ... if it fails to express precisely the meaning of the author, if it does not say HIM, [sic] it says... See more
Miguel • Issue #341: How to Earn Money from Your Writing
Their genius? Converting intellectual positions into market arbitrage while wielding (and often owning) digital megaphones to reshape the very reality their investments bet against.
The New Legislators of Silicon Valley - The Ideas Letter
Increasingly believe that the "good, cheap, fast —choose two" maxim is devious misinformation spread by the slow.
In my experience, "slow" and "expensive" usually go together. I was in a meeting yesterday where lopping a year off a project schedule also ended up reducing the cost substantially. Fundamentally, it takes... See more
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