Emilie Kormienko

Exhaustion is the central symptom of burnout. It comprises profound physical, cognitive, and emotional fatigue that undermines people’s ability to work effectively and feel positive about what they’re doing.

Choose co-founders that you would work for, not just with: Another component of well-being is making sure that your relationships, including professional ones, stay strong. While Reitano is the CEO, he says the best way to choose co-founders is to find people that you would not only be willing to work with — but for — as if they were your boss.... See more

The best way to make your onboarding better is to try it. Try it often. Every few weeks at minimum. Think of yourself as one of your user personas, or a dumb user rather than you, the expert who knows your product very well. Question every step. Act confused.

Smartphones were inherently social, too, unlike the desktop web. Apps could tap into a smartphone’s address book for a ready-made social graph; they could import photos from a user’s camera roll, or easily grab the user’s coordinates for location-based networking.

A blockchain is immutable: if you change a block, it changes the fingerprint. And since that fingerprint is included in the next block, the next block is changed too. And since that block's fingerprint... well, you get the idea. You end up with a domino effect where any change becomes evident. You can't alter any information without everyone... See more

Decentralized finance, or DeFi, is the ecosystem of financial applications being built with blockchain technology and without banks.  Characteristics:  Non-Custodial, o pen, t ransparent, d ecentralized

In consumer, a great onboarding flow gets you to the core value of the product in the minimum number of steps required.

Activate community engagement by doing things that don’t scale, giving members a say in what happens, being funny, sparking debates, being authentic, and keeping your energy high and positive. Lead by example.

I've met so many creators—including outwardly successful ones making a great living—who are unhappy, and who feel trapped. They joined the creator economy to pursue a life of freedom and creativity and connection. So they followed all the rules and Best Practices. They did everything right, yet still ended up constructing a prison for themselves,... See more