Mo Shafieeha
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Mo Shafieeha
A company that avoids hard truths assumes that an engineer who knows the company has missed a quarter will leave for sunnier pastures, so it's best to keep them in the dark until the problem is resolved. In their hearts, the CEO and her staff know the truth. They're smart enough to see it for themselves.
Linkedin • Conflict Avoidance is Dishonesty
In order to optimize sleep and wakefulness - even if you're tired - we need to set the deck in a way that lets your body monitor its autonomic timing and set its circadian rhythm. Eat a light breakfast and exercise a little (it doesn't have to be intense).
Andrew Huberman • Sleep Toolkit: Tools for Optimizing Sleep & Sleep-Wake Timing
During the Stay SaaSy protocol, you're supposed to explain what happened the last time you met with your mentor. If you can't, don't ask that mentor any more questions. It's okay to have long gaps between meetings with your mentors. If you have any questions, you should probably be judicious about them.
Cedric Chin • Be Good To Your Mentors
business and
Construction is a $10T industry with several very big problems. As an industry, it consumes the greatest amount of resources and energy and contributes the largest amount of waste. We build everything as if it's unique, have unacceptable worker injury/fatality rates and collect sparse data.
Sarah Guo • Location, location, location (data)
In college, the author started his first startup, and it failed. Before launch, he didn't talk to customers, he fought with his cofounders a lot. He didn't know how to build working software or deal with tech debt. He read Eric Ries's Lean Startup after this experience and vowed to use it. Since the insurance CRM was geared toward tracking existing... See more
Cedric Chin • Product Validation Frameworks are Mostly Useless Without Taste
Mindsets
- Sees the whole picture
- Engages different perspectives to see new leverage points in complex systems
- Looks for relationships and how parts interact
- Looks for unintended consequences
- Thinks circularly; not linearly
- Embraces complexity
- Questions assumptions
Boxes and Arrows • Activating Change: A Designer’s Guide to Systems Thinking - Boxes and Arrows
The biggest issue I have with the bloated addressable market slides we see in company pitches is that when we fast forward 5-10 years, the actual revenue generated by those companies will not even come close to equalizing the addressable market size. The addressable market size slide is usually the least useful in a pitch deck since it is too... See more
larry cheng • Thinking About Thinking
Stage 4: Structured Structured UX means that the organization recognizes the value of UX and has established a full UX team or multiple teams. Leadership usually supports UX and sometimes incorporates it into high-level strategies. There is a centralized definition of design and a shared, iterative human-centered design process.