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Nonlinear systems with real chaos were rarely taught and rarely learned.
James Gleick • Chaos: Making a New Science
Law #1 Thinking About Thinking Is the Most Important Kind of Thinking Expertise is the enemy of fresh thinking. Category design is a game of thinking. If you want to find success as a category designer, you have to change the way a reader, customer, consumer, subscriber, or user “thinks.” You are successful when you’ve moved their thinking from the
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Dual Components of Risk: o Bessent defines risk as a combination of two factors: ▪ Probability: The likelihood that an adverse event or outcome will occur.
▪ Severity: The magnitude of the potential loss or negative impact if the event occurs.
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The early 5.25-inch drive makers found this application (one might even say that they enabled it) by trial and error, selling drives to whomever would buy them.
Clayton M. Christensen • The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)
meet up creation flow that read “I pledge to create real, face-to-face community.” Andres was skeptical. Sure, it might keep out the spammers, but the golden rule of designing sign-up flows is that you don’t add anything unnecessary, because every additional step introduces greater inhibiting pressure and thus lowers the behavior that is registrati
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Instead of focusing on not judging a book by its cover, it would be more useful to say we would be better off putting more effort into revising the judgments we will undoubtedly make.
Eric Barker • Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong
The sources of alpha can be segmented into four key areas:
Information: The advantage of possessing data that others do not.
Processing: The capacity to interpret and analyze data more effectively than others.
Modeling: The ability to design superior mathematical models that reflect market patterns and behaviors.
Speed: The advantage of acting quicker
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Or maybe you’re running a creative team. In a pre-AI world, in order to create consistency, you needed to reduce your work down to principles and systems so that writers and designers could consistently capture your brand's voice and style.
In a post-AI world, you don't necessarily need to reduce your work in such a way. Instead, you can find exampl
... See moreDan Shipper • Five New Thinking Styles for Working With Thinking Machines
Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.’