Ideas I want to write about
Now the point of this myth is the fact that men at once become fascinated by any extension of themselves in any material other than themselves.
- Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media - The Gadget Lover: Narcissus as Narcosis
In Search of New Software Cultures
Literature 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
@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.com“When you read your notebooks, you remeet ideas. You reintroduce them to who you are now.” That’s from writer Max Porter’s interview in the book The Work of Art . (As you may know, I’m a huge believer in the importance of revisiting notebooks.)
Ampersanding
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
art is the curing of callousness
ayan artan • In Defense of Pretension.
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