š¤ User research for consumer tech startups
š§ Innovation in social systems
Digital platforms used to bring our physical lives online, but now that we have uniquely digital experiences and relationships, we donāt have products that let us successfully bring those offline.
Donāt switch fields, donāt look for a new job, donāt move on. Even when itās tempting. Especially when itās tempting. Thereās a decent chance your motivations are driven by two things: The grass-is-greener fallacy of wrongly assuming the alternative is better, or denying the fact that great opportunities occasionally require annoyance and... See more
Because you can see, even more clearly with the distance, the theory of attention that underpinned the iPhone: that with these calm and capable devices in our pockets, we would ourselves become calmer and more capable. That we would master what cognitive scientists call executive functioning ā the ability to mentally plan, organize our working... See more
Nervous about joining an early stage startup? Let's talk about risk. There are two types of risk: job risk and career risk. People think they are the same. They aren't. They are very different.
Stripeāand now Frontierāaims to be a ābuyer of first resort,ā sending a demand-side signal to entrepreneurs and investors that a large market for permanent carbon removal exists.
Early Internet users used alternate spelling or āleetspeakā to bypass word filters in chat rooms, image boards, online games and forums. But algorithmic content moderation systems are more pervasive on the modern Internet, and often end up silencing marginalized communities and important discussions.