Mo Shafieeha

David Sirlin explains: In gaming, a scrub is someone who isn't playing to win. A scrub would disagree with this statement, saying they are only trying hard within a construct of fictitious rules that prevent them from ever competing. The scrub mentality is to be shackled by self-imposed handicaps that prevent one from becoming good at a game.

While you are close to that Person, object, or animal and intentionally experiencing attachment, don't distract yourself or think about counterfactuals (i.e., "what ifs"); get up close and experience attachment. Getting enough sleep is essential for hormone regulation, neuroplasticity, and setting yourself up for a healthy autonomic state to cope... See more

Abstraction offers another benefit: by sacrificing detail, the essence of your message becomes plausible, believable, and relatable. Good storytellers give us enough detail to see what they mean, but ensure those details are relatable enough to be relevant to the audience. Images and stories help us connect with bigger concepts. Airbnb's early work... See more

Stage 5: Integrated When organizations reach the stage of integrated UX, their UX work has become comprehensive, pervasive, and universal. The organization's important success metrics — that leaders care most about — have a focus on UX or are driven by UX-related work. There is often innovation in UX methods and processes and contributions to the... See more

The first meta-metagovernance playThe first meta-metagovernance (metagovernance for short) play happened in the summer of 2021 when Fei Protocol utilized its $INDEX token to list itself onto Aave.

One of the most challenging ideas I have encountered. The idea is to recognize a situation in a developing environment. This is done by translating that recognition into a set of cues, plausible goals, and expectations, along with a set of trained actions. If you are familiar with the situation, you construct variations of intended actions on the... See more

It probably gives you an idea of context discovery when doing organization design in a large corporation. To understand what might need to change and why Microsoft's CEO Steve Sinofsky had to go through 'three months of 100 meetings. Windows leadership had to balance incentives with the structure for the organizational change to be successful.... See more