Luc Cheung

The more senior the designer, the more abstract the problem they should be solving.

To break it down more tangibly, let’s look at some examples of levels and appropriate responsibilities:

Designer Lvl 1: Design a form that lets people edit their profile. Pretty scoped—assumes there is a profile, and that the solution takes the shape of a form.

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In the long run, endogenous variance in the quality of product leadership in a company always seems to be in the negative direction. But perhaps we are too focused on management quality and not focused enough on exogenous factors. In "Divine Discontent: Disruption’s Antidote," Ben Thompson writes:

Bezos’s letter, though, reveals another advantage of

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Winners expect to win. https://t.co/c0xOCn677S

Segment and Amplitude hired a customer success/support person as employee #1. Here’s Calvin French-Owen (co-founder of Segment) on why they did this:

“ There’s something really magical when you write in to a startup and they fix your issue within a few hours. It’s something you’d never, ever expect from a big company, and it was one way for us to

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Reasons you should still get into AI

• Broad Potential of AI/Rate of Growth
  
  
  • Jeff Bezos famously quit finance to start Amazon at age 30.
  
  
  • He did this because Internet usage was growing 2,300% a year in 1994.
  
  
  • Rollouts of
    
    general purpose technologies
    
    3
    
    span decades.
  
  
  • Imagine being a “latecomer” to tech in the year 2000 or 2010 and concluding it was “too

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Ads have ruined company priorities

It used to be that we design for the best possible experience. But then “free” came around. Nothing is really free, however – you may not pay for it but you do with your data to improve ad targeting.

As a result, the incentives for the creators of these products is not to create a better experience for you. It’s to... See more

The best way to fail at inventing something is by making it somebody’s part-time job.