teach a man to fish/ people are capable
# the nightmare bicycle
imo, the most important idea in product design is to avoid the "nightmare bicycle".
imagine a bicycle where the product manager said "people don't get math so we can't have numbered gears - we need to have labeled buttons for gravel mode, downhill mode,... See more
We found that being able to freely write notes anywhere in our planning tool provided a graceful fallback for any situation: we could write down anything as text if a more ideal structured data format was not available. We frequently found ourselves mixing mentions and formulas together with freeform text notes and annotations to capture thoughts
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Composing data from multiple sources in this way is harder to do in the conventional app model. For example, if you open Google Calendar and pull up the weather forecast in another tab, there is no way to combine these two data sources in a single view. This is possible in Embark because the weather forecast and the time information live in the
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FLORA is a process tool. Like I said before, at it’s best it feels like creatively ice skating. And process tools are meant to be a springboard and sifter. Springboard-ing thoughts I didn’t know were laying dormant or around a corner from the idea I was working on. Excavating those ideas, manipulating and sifting through the winners and losers.
Reggie James • FLORA - True Creative AI
ick says if it's a single best thought you have ever had in your life it needs to dominate everything because you're not going to get many insights like that and
if it's your single best Insight your single best idea then obviously it's what you should spending all your time on
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
You can look at these things as games and dismiss them, or you can look at them as very simple simulated learning environments. So, as an example, in a simple Pong game, the game is constantly telling you how well you’re doing by how well you score. And so the more you learn the underlying principles, the better you score.
The underlying principles
... See moreMichael Lawrence • Steve Jobs Tribute From mlfilms.com Memory & Imagination
– Steve Jobs
What are the incentives / the score that teach you the underlying principles?
Opinionated software is worth something, as opinions represent an experience of what works, what produces results. And this is the ultimate value
Sebastian Siemiatkowski • Tweet
We believe that rather than forcing people to adapt to rigid, one-size-fits-all interfaces, our software environments should adapt to each person’s needs, context, and mental models. With a proper set of new primitives, the digital realm could support more thoughtful engagement with the things that matter most to each of us