nicole

Facebook has integrated, through Instagram, content and distribution within one single company, within one single app or constellation of apps.

"Ask your target users four questions. Number one, at what price would you consider Superhuman to be so expensive that you would not consider buying it? Number two, at what price would you consider Superhuman to be priced so low that you would feel the quality couldn't be very good? Number three, at what price would you consider Superhuman to be st... See more

When it’s just you and me, taking turns is easy: you go, I go, repeat. When it’s you and me and Nina and Marlon, who should talk next? It’s often unclear, so we all stand around waiting for someone else to take their turn or to invite us to take ours. Givers try to salvage these situations by turning them into laborious seminar discussions (“Why do... See more

[6:54] work expands to fill the time that you allocate to it... So what this basically means is if I say that I'm going to write my essay in three weeks or I'm going to write my essay in five months, or I'm going to write my essay in three days, very often, the quality of the work is not going to be too different in these three different forms, so ... See more

I think the skill is holding both of those… to borrow a phrase from my wife, she loves this phrase, “holding both of those things in your head at the same time.” One is absolute dedication and commitment to a vision of the future that you see, your recursive vision about the future. And two, an utter lack of bias or pre-determined thought on how yo... See more

When you describe the culture and values and character of a company, not even through like the internal workings but in the way that the product experience feels when you use it, it’s almost indistinguishable from the founder’s personality. And very rarely does a company, even when it goes through multiple CEOs significantly deviate from that that ... See more

No. But somebody raised a great point to me that the world’s sort of shifted and now Instagram is a museum. Instagram inherently, I put less content on it because it’s like a showcase and it reflects on me forever. And when you go to Snapchat, my response to Snapchat, it’s like a crowded bar. There is content flying everywhere; it’s lose, it’s fun.... See more

…the path to establishing that kind of persistence is not linear, there's a step change. There's a period when a company can establish that, and that window often closes, if you will. It's the kind of business that you're so familiar with. It's in the earlier stage.

[10:36] ...good nature is the result of ease and security, not a life of arduous struggle. So, some struggle cannot be avoided, but the struggles that we can avoid and this self-imposed kind of work that we need to do, might actually be affecting us negatively in the long term.

It’s not expensive in terms of dollars, I think it’s expensive in terms of opportunity cost, or attention.