Jordan Bester

Learn from Dropboxs' own @drewhouston.

I’ve looked at resumes every which way, and I just don’t like them as a job hunting tool.

Chris utilized both environment design and habit stacking to stop sleeping in. He wrote, “I have a bad habit: Hitting snooze. To eliminate it, I “made it hard” and put phone in the bathroom. The phone then became a habit stack. The first thing I do when I wake up: turn off alarm, go to bathroom, brush teeth, etc.”

 You need a small group of early adopters who love your company, trust you and are willing to go through a shitstorm of bad UX, just to give you their opinion on how you can improve your product.

" We’ve come to see that “design thinking” and “agile engineering” are their own systems of organizational structures, workflows, philosophies, and skillsets. They are key to how we work within a company. In the same way, we can build growth teams as a system too. "

- There is a lack of understanding why retention is the priority. Without understanding this, people end up working on the wrong things and missing the biggest opportunities.

- Determine the size of your canvas. You can only spare 15 minutes each day to write? That’s the size of your canvas. Your job is to make each paragraph a work of art.- James Clear