Mo Shafieeha

As designers, we make choices that other people have to live with. Our responsibility as designers is to make those choices count. System thinking is one way of thinking about how we can make more ethical and holistic choices. A systems approach to designing needs strong partnerships to overcome complexity. Systems thinking is an approach that... See more

Year-to-date, the NASDAQ is down 15% and has fallen more since November's all-time highs. Declining asset prices put structural pressure on overextended investors through margin calls and redemptions. More investors begin to question their positions as asset prices fall. Growth stage companies are significantly less valuable when the risk-free... See more

Rule 6: Search for Stories That Are Relevant To The Framework, But Might Not Fit

A lot of products require a mixture of taste and customer obsession. So if you try to copy Amazon's PR/FAQ process without someone with product taste in the room, you're pretty likely to fail. There's also the tacit component to success, which is harder to articulate and, therefore, harder to acquire.

Providing real human value isn't a benchmark for business success. Instead, success is defined by speed, scale, and growth. This is deeply rooted in our culture of technology. It's easy to become swept along without realizing how far we have strayed from our original direction.

There are losses for hedge fund investors with large public portfolios at high-cost bases. An early-stage company whose public holdings fall 25% in value feels less pressure than a crossover firm when its portfolio falls from an 8X multiple-of-money to a 6X multiple-of-money. Public securities of such firms are underwater, and private holdings are... See more