Mark Fishman
@markfishman
🤓 User research for consumer tech startups
🧠Innovation in social systems
Mark Fishman
Four questions to ask about a platform (web2 or web3)1. Why do people come?2. Why do people stay?3. Why do people share?4. Why do people pay?It’s okay if people come for tokens, but it shouldn’t be the (only) reason that they stay.
Sari Azout • Betting on Consumer Tech’s Tokenized Future ft. Gaby Goldberg
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
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.
David Rogiertwitter.com
Walkable communities that are newer
Governance and
Crowdfunding and
Community Bonds to finance public interest projects
But, then, ultimately, we get to this somewhat stark moment of conviction – a decision without certainty but with some level of instinct and belief. The work you’ve done is a big input, but then, I find there’s something else, too. It’s some combination of understanding, excitement, experience, gut, and fear. And this process repeats throughout our... See more
Mario Gabriele • Modern Meditations: Rebecca Kaden (Union Square Ventures)
On conviction and decision-making
Good decisions require lots of quiet time alone in your head, maybe sitting on the couch thinking or going for a walk. It rarely looks like work, which means your coworkers have to trust you when you’re doing it.
Morgan Housel • Staying Put
If Shabbat is framed as something you are doing for yourself, ... It loses its transcendent target, which means it doesn’t provide the true release that actual submission gives, and submission is the very thing that allows us to reap all those ancillary benefits. Put another way, a major reason everyone is so exhausted is because we have been... See more