Emilie Kormienko

A promising technology is a piece of your project’s puzzle, not to be thrown all over it.

Broadly, the best way to get better at developing strategy: s pend time understanding your market (including your competition); s pend time understanding your customers and their needs; spend time crafting and executing strategies — and learn from those experiences; study colleagues who are great strategic thinkers; read about strategy.

One area where talent markets are malfunctioning: people who can make things happen, coordinate a team, or drive a project.

While feeling down, I gave myself a break from work I wasn’t passionate about and focused on projects that made me happy. For some, happiness can be found in a walk, cooking a nice meal, or even just taking a bath.

Web3 (2020+) is read, write, and own. People create, consume, and own the upside of their work through tokens. Web3 is built on peer-to-peer networks of computers that talk to each other without middlemen.

When onboarding is designed correctly, it increases the likelihood of successful adoption, and can drive major growth and retention for your product.

As a general rule, the wilder the success, the more extreme and unlikely the circumstances that caused it. It's often a combination of the right genes, the right connections, the right timing, and a thousand other influences that nobody is wise enough to predict.

Today’s dominant internet platforms are built on aggregating users and user data. As these platforms have grown, so has their ability to provide value — thanks to the power of network effects — which has enabled them to stay ahead.