Ideas I want to write about

The stories we find most engaging aren't perfect, but they are either told by someone we trust or are constructed to highlight whatever will resonate most with our thinking/liking.

These are the two most common elements a story needs to generate revenue and resonance.

It's Spielberg vs. Nolan: Messenger vs. Medium. One is known for using the message... See more

‘don’t be the best, be the only’

To opt out, though, is to be excluded.

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.”

increasing market penetration , which comes from making the brand easy to think of (mental availability) and easy to buy (physical availability)

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.

When you recognize that Hardware is part of our nature layer -> so consequentially, our culture is downstream of our hardware...

art is the curing of callousness