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Nobody wants your product until they want what it enables them to do. To get this clarity about what someone wants to be able to do, you need to understand the struggle that caused them to shape that idea and motivation of an unmet goal. If you can uncover that, you have a good bet of solving the “right” problem.
What is the “right” problem to solve?
Because each and every technology is not a single standalone idea but a web of many ideas, the technium itself emerges as a significant partner in invention. Libraries, journals, communication networks, and the accumulation of other technologies help create the next idea, beyond the efforts of a single individual. If Alexander Graham Bell had not
... See moreNoah Smith • Interview: Kevin Kelly, Editor, Author, and Futurist
Only we’re not in the industrial age anymore. But our businesses, institutions, and organzations — in fact, our whole economies — are still run for, governed by, this obsolete, macho principle of achieving ultra huge mega scale.
umair haque • Why We Need to Build Human-Scale Organizations
Warren Buffett says the definition of success is when the people you want to love you do love you. A corollary is not to sweat it when people you don’t care about don’t love you.
Morgan Housel • Assured Misery
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By creating a new UI on top of the old folder structure features are possible that weren’t before. I listed requirements for what I want from a next gen-filesystem (excerpt):
Andreas Stegmann • What’s missing: Google Photos for Documents
I think the first role of marketing is to make a decision easy to make. And that mean firstly clarity in terms of choice, and secondly it means lack of anxiety. So the first role of marketing is not actually getting preference, it’s not actually getting someone to prefer a Philips TV, it’s getting someone non-anxious about buying a Philips.
Rory Sutherland • Rory Sutherland: The Wiki Man
