Emilie Kormienko
@emiliekormienko
community designer @startupy.
Emilie Kormienko
Belonging and
It’s trial and error or it’s working with people you already know and trust in a business context. Cliché as it sounds, you’re not going to find the right team, if you don’t know yourself – but that’s way too philosophical for this memo. Understand how you work and how you like people to perform under pressure. Set the culture of the business... See more
Iman Olya • A Strategist’s Go-To-Market Strategy Guide — rational vc
Cynicism, also called depersonalization, represents an erosion of engagement. It is essentially a way of distancing yourself psychologically from your work. Instead of feeling invested in your assignments, projects, colleagues, customers, and other collaborators, you feel detached, negative, even callous.
Harvard Business Review • 4 Steps to Beating Burnout
Algorithm-friendly design need not be user-hostile. It simply takes a different approach as to how to best serve the user’s interests. Pagination may insert some level of friction to the user, but in doing so, it may provide the algorithm with cleaner signal that safeguards the quality of the feed in the long run.
Eugene Wei • Seeing Like an Algorithm — Remains of the Day
Qualities of well-articulated strategy: s hort, m emorable, is explained with framework or a metaphor, leverages the rule of three, is easy to find (and share)
Lenny Rachitsky • Getting better at product strategy
In the offline world, supply scarcity is the main constraint on growth. Franchises can distribute their brand (and acquire customers) at a national and international level via linear and digital advertising, but revenue — and consumption — still occurs at a local level. Thus to grow requires growing a franchise’s retail footprint, and the franchise... See more
Sam Blumenthal • Social Commerce: Web3 & The Digital Franchise Model
This, then, is the magic of the design of TikTok: it is a closed loop of feedback which inspires and enables the creation and viewing of videos on which its algorithm can be trained.For its algorithm to become as effective as it has, TikTok became its own source of training data.
Eugene Wei • Seeing Like an Algorithm — Remains of the Day
People (or rather, their avatars) might walk out of a virtual concert together and then meander down an adjacent virtual shopping strip. Just like in the physical world, then, the shops closest to the virtual conference hall will get the most “foot traffic.”
Scott Kominers • Metaverse Land: What Makes Digital Real Estate Valuable - a16z crypto
The most important thing that I think academia has to offer is giving researchers a stable career path to explore long-term questions. I’ve come to appreciate this more after my last phase of work. Working independently was useful to me in earlier stages of research. As public discourse starts to mature, it became more important to have a community... See more