Mo Shafieeha

Stop worrying and help respondents do the same Whenever you feel nervous during an interview, acknowledge the feeling and be open about it. This won't take away the stress, but it will ease it. If a respondent appears to be anxious, ask if the interview questions are making them feel that way.

5. Leverage influencersKey question: Who are influencers of your target users, and how could you get them to talk about your product? Instagram, Twitter, and Producthunt can be examples.

Three times a year, the DAO engages in two-week intensive governance participation periods centered on:It is time to change DAO key outcomes and KPIs. Identifying organizational needs and bottlenecks (which must hinder DAO from achieving its key KPIs). Pivoting, iterating, improving, and coming up with new work proposals.During shared discussions,... 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

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

---------PROTOCOL LEADERSHIP Kain Warwick, Synthetix's former "benevolent dictator," recently explained a problem arising from the decentralized governance of Synthetix. Warwick recalls stepping away from his de facto leadership position and leaving the Spartan Council, a democratically elected body that approved Synthetix protocol changes and was... See more

This is Part 5 of the Learning in Ill-Structured Domains Series. Cognitive Flexibility Theory says you can be an expert in an ill-structured domain.