Emily Sokolow

“You know yourself mostly by your thoughts.

Everyone else in the world knows you only by your actions.

It’s up to artists to use language to turn the sublimity of the mystery into nuggets that we can cognitively behold.

The gambler needs to learn new knowledge about the machines and simultaneously use what they have already learned to optimize their decisions. In the literature, these two activities are referred to as exploring and exploiting. You can’t do both things at the same time. When you explore, you are pulling new arms on the bandit trying to figure out t... See more

Collapse the talent stack every chance you get .

As I reflect on the teams I’ve led and hundreds of start-ups I’ve worked with, there is a consistent unfair competitive advantage i’ve witnessed when the talent stack was collapsed - when the lead designer was also the product leader, when the front-end engineer was also a designer, when the designer... See more

In the era of web apps and “product led growth,” the marketing page IS the product’s first mile experience IS the core value and end-to-end experience .