Elena
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Elena
Here are some examples of powerful questions to ask someone, that you can modify per your needs:
• What do you really want?
• What about this is important to you?
• What does that look like?
• How do you feel about this?
• What’s next?
• What else is possible?
• What’s right about this?
• What are your concerns?
• What is standing in your way?
• Tell me
Bob Tiede • Asking Good Questions = Better Leader
And yet, in so much modern software today, you’re placed in a drab gray cubicle — anonymized and aggregated until you’re just a daily active user. For minimalism. For simplicity. For scale! But if our hope is to create software with feeling, it means inviting people in to craft it for themselves — to mold it to the contours of their unique lives
... See moreThe Browser Company • Optimizing For Feelings
My product won’t write sentences for you. The slow process of writing is what clarifies thought, shapes identity, and cultivates a lens to the world. Writing is the whole point; it isn’t a chore to optimize, it’s an infinite game.
Michael Dean • Mega-Update
The problem you solve for customers is increasingly one they can’t even articulate for themselves . The ones that are easy to understand have already been built and funded over the last 20 years. Building something of true excellence will require a hungrier engagement with the world—and that will have to start with developing superior taste.
Evan Armstrong • Want to Build? Technical Excellence Won’t Be Enough.
It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images of the world and has thus been drawn into the human realm, which now encompasses everything. There is no place, no thing, no person or phenomenon that I cannot obtain as image or information.
One might think this adds substance to the world, since one knows more about it, not less, but
Knausgård on the internet vs experience
in my experience, charm is found in the warmth of a touch, the ability to welcome someone into a conversation organically, the filling up someone’s water glass before your own, remembering details about someone’s family they forgot they told you about.... the goal of charm is to selflessly melt someone down into puddle of their best qualities so... See more