Ideas I want to write about
When design teams end up with solutions that feel vague or generic, it’s usually because they started with the component instead of the user’s goal.
Component first = “I need a slider with a volume label and a time picker.”
Goal first = “Users need to adjust playback speed and expand event durations.”
Component first = “I need a slider with a volume label and a time picker.”
Goal first = “Users need to adjust playback speed and expand event durations.”
When the Output Becomes the Material
Magritte's work feels like permission to get weird, to surrender to fantasy, to wear fewer clothes—or no clothes at all—to experiment, flirt, be curious, and get a little unhinged. It is a time to mingle with the mythical creatures that exist in perpetual summer, unicorns and nymphs endlessly trapped in a lush dreamscape. And doesn't summer always... See more
René Magritte, Gertrude Abercrombie, and Alex Katz Feel Like Summer
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
Patrick Collisonx.comCaring what other people think is human and often learning and getting feedback on how one can improve is key to success so not living in other people’s minds does not mean not listening to or caring what other people say or think.
It means stopping using their metrics and their rulers of success to rule the way we live our life.
If nobody was... See more
It means stopping using their metrics and their rulers of success to rule the way we live our life.
If nobody was... See more
Exercising Belief.
Remaining in the context of New York, it could look like this... The Right is fear-mongering about the dangers of everyday life in the city, while the Left doesn’t want to admit that the city has gotten progressively more dangerous. The Right doesn’t want to admit that police officers aren’t doing their job, and the left doesn’t want to admit we... See more
Reggie James • Political Expectations
a16z is positioning itself to manufacture the conditions under which outcomes occur —through media, markets, talent pipelines, political alignment, and institutional influence.
ChatGPT
World class leaders and companies are never defeated. They decide to defeat themselves by chanting the following mantras:
Cannot sacrifice margin.
New competitors and markets are too niche or too unsophisticated.
Customer and clients will not accept the change.
We do not have the skills and this sounds like a different business.
Cannot sacrifice margin.
New competitors and markets are too niche or too unsophisticated.
Customer and clients will not accept the change.
We do not have the skills and this sounds like a different business.
7 Steps to Transformation.
I will treat you with dignity, perhaps even kindness, but I am in no way interested in you.