Mark Fishman
@markfishman
🤓 User research for consumer tech startups
🧠Innovation in social systems
Mark Fishman
Claude projects are truly incredible
My favorite is a version of “morning pages.” I could never sit and write for 30 min so instead I do it with Claude as an audio note and have it organize it. Here’s the “custom instructions” I input. Then, just talk at the thing for 10 minutes.
“I want... See more
Patrick OShaughnessyx.comClaude prompt for Morning Pages
If office occupancy never recovers, downtown areas will experience an extended ice age. Emptier offices will mean fewer lunches at downtown restaurants, fewer happy hours, fewer window shoppers, fewer subway and bus trips, and less work for cleaning, security, and maintenance services. This means weaker downtown economies and less taxable income... See more
The Atlantic • The Five-Day Workweek Is Dying
This idea—that by committing to buy a product early, you can help bring it to market faster —was first pioneered in the field of medicine. In 2010, a set of donors committed $1.5 billion to buy doses of a vaccine for Streptococcus pneumoniae before it had been invented. That “advanced market commitment,” as it’s called, spurred the rapid invention... See more
Robinson Meyer • We’ve Never Seen a Carbon-Removal Plan Like This Before
Token Gating and
For some knowledge workers, Friday through Monday may come to occupy a murky space between weekday and weekend—a sort of work-play purgatory, where the once-solid walls between work and life become more porous. “Mondays and Tuesday are the fastest-growing days of the week for travel,” Airbnb’s chief executive, Brian Chesky, told me. “More people... See more
The Atlantic • The Five-Day Workweek Is Dying
Twitter’s Response to the Oscars Slap Was a Predictable Cycle
Charlie Warzelnewsletters.theatlantic.com