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humans are particularly wired to follow the cues of three groups: the close, the many, and the powerful.

Jerry Seinfeld said the following is one of his favorite jokes, the one that “would encapsulate my worldview.” A gardener was out tending to his beautiful, magnificent, thriving garden when another man walked by and stopped to admire it. “Boy,” the man said, marveling at the blooming flowers and the perfect rows of crops, “some of God’s best work,... See more

Outcomes pay the bills. Journeys are what stories are written about.

Taste is the instinct that tells us not just what can be done, but what should be done.

Nobody sets out planning to move slowly, waste time on bad ideas, and test nothing.

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are lots of rewards for heroic saves at work. But heroic saves undermine the desire to build better systems.

MAYA dictates that the ideal design sits between solutions that are completely novel and entirely familiar. Be too novel and customers will tune you out. Be too familiar and customers will look right past you. Or, in Loewy’s words, “The adult public’s taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical solutions to their requirements if the... See more

All fraud is a) an abuse of trust causing b) monetary losses for the defrauded and c) monetary gain for the fraudster. You could zero fraud by never trusting anyone in any circumstance.