Product
New concepts, product ideas, and forward-thinking solutions
Product
building products is all about tradeoffs.
wholeheartedly recommend coming up with a set of principles that you can refer to whenever something is in doubt and you need criteria to evaluate a decision.
these were the principles we came up with at sublime https://t.co/ZjnA29n1sT
you’re not building a product you’re engineering culture
Finding the right problem to solve is the hardest path in building products. Framing a problem is irreducable.
Computational irreducibility. You can speed up processes and collabs things. There is one thing you cannot simplify.
In ai it is framing the problem a llm should solve.
as AI automates the "have to dos," we'll unlock more time for the "get to dos"
bullish on people building companies optimizing for joy, creativity, and meaningful experiences vs. just solving life's annoying tasks
We repeat ourselves a lot. Once something has happened before in a similar context. Ai is really good at giving an answer for that particular context - create playbooks for certain situations that repeat. E.g. how decisions have been made.
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.
John Maeda • The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
How do we design a platform where users " come for the tool, stay for the community, and work for the growth "?