š¤ User research for consumer tech startups
š§ Innovation in social systems
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.
Speed and efficiency are the promise of modernity. But speed and efficiency are all destination and no journey. And it is journey that gives life meaning.
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
The goal, of course, is to eventually remove carbon at the cheapest per-ton price possible, but simply paying for efficiency is not necessarily the fastest way to get there. The history of American technology policy helps demonstrate why. In the 1950s and ā60s, the United States promised to purchase the fastest semiconductor from any company that... See more