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- So but how do we build software that can be anything without falling into the Zombocom trap? I believe that Bezos interview shows us exactly how.
- You start from a systems-level insight ( the internet is growing rapidly )
- Then work backwards to a first best customer who has a burning need ( can’t find book ) that is related to your superpower ( intern
from The Zombocom Problem by Gordon Brander
- Productivity, for me, is a natural outgrowth of passion. If I need to think about “productivity” as a separate discipline from “doing the thing,” something has gone wrong.
from What Maximum Productivity Looks Like for Me by Sasha Chapin
- Our tagline is Founders are artists, not assets. If I had to summarize my core belief, it’s that the best founders, especially in the early days, look more like artists creating a fundamentally new, creative project. They don’t resemble business executives chasing an arbitrage opportunity.
from In the Asylum with Nick Chirls by Elan Miller
- I think there are things in life that you want to telescope and compress and accelerate and streamline and make more efficient. And there are things where the value is precisely in the inefficiency, in the time spent, in the pain endured, in the effort you have to invest. And I don’t think we’re going to differentiate between those things. Because ... See more
from Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent? by Rory Sutherland
- What does slow AI look like?
from Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent? by Rory Sutherland
We’ve assumed that the way we interact with it is instantaneous. Are we sure that’s right? What if we want to see things, refine things, consider things. I think we want to mull them over. I think we want to discuss them.
- In New York, people speak fast. In the American South, they speak slowly. Both of them are a form of politeness, understood in a different way. In New York, you speak quickly because you respect the value of the other person’s time and you don’t want to take up too much of it. In the South, you speak slowly because you want to respect the person by... See more
from Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent? by Rory Sutherland
the opposite of a good idea is also a good idea
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- There are brilliant examples all over the place of people tweaking time subjectively. One of my favorites is the Uber map. It doesn’t change how long you wait for the taxi. It changes the quality of the waiting time by reducing uncertainty. If you look at human emotions, although humans might say, “I don’t like waiting for a taxi,” what makes them ... See more
from Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent? by Rory Sutherland
going quite a bit faster when you’re going slowly is a really big gain. Going very fast when you’re already going fast is the action of a dickhead.