Linear doesn’t have metrics goals - the founder thinks setting specific metric goals can lead them astray. Product goals should be about how we solve our customers’ problems better.
In America, losing a job means making a hundred phone calls to a state unemployment-insurance system. Getting hit by a car means becoming your own hospital-billing expert. Having a disability means launching into a Jarndyce v. Jarndyce–type legal battle. Needing help to feed a toddler means filling out a novel-length application for aid.
Animal Crossing has attracted millions of players during the lockdown. The cartoon game allows users to socialize, trade virtual assets, accommodate tech conferences, bully digital likenesses, and host a wedding in a digital world.
The competitive disadvantages of decentralization are so immense that it only works if the offered incentives (economic, cultural) outweigh those disadvantages.
Rather than owning the exclusive, it was the very self that became the target for exclusification. Health, education and productivity got aspirational treatment, and brands battled with each other for the title of “best-self enabler.”
Young people report higher levels of stress than their older counterparts. Nearly 6 in 10 respondents in the 35 to 44 years of age category reported high or very high levels of stress (58%), while less than one-quarter (23%) of respondents in the 55-plus age group reported experiencing the same upper levels of stress.
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