So the first lesson is not to despair at reading these stories. They are excellent inspirational material, but poor instructional manuals. The second is, even though we see it in movies and read about it in magazines it’s not necessary to imbue forced significance on to any particular event or idea as it happens – many successful people didn’t... See more
To create an aura of artificial scarcity around their music, the likes of 3LAU and RAC create a non-fungible token (NFT) to represent each piece of art. An NFT is a token that — unlike, say, a U.S. dollar bill or a standard cryptocurrency like Bitcoin or Ether — is rare, singularly unique, not mutually interchangeable and indivisible into smaller... See more
In January 2015, Airbnb launched a social media campaign with the hashtag #OneLessStranger. More than 3,000,000 people worldwide joined the campaign in just three weeks, creating content and actively talking about the campaign.
Trying to power through only makes things worse. While quitting your job like I did is certainly one option, it's not the only option. Finding space to recover is all about setting boundaries between yourself and your work.
We thought we were just having fun times with devices; it turns out we were spreading nuclear waste over the entire surface of the earth. Piling up heaps of radioactive slag inside our homes. Smearing it over our faces at night. And then a generation was born into that poisoned world; we got to watch them take shape, and it became obvious how... See more
That the best way to review a product experience is to ask 3 questions on EVERY screen: “how did I get here?” “what do I do now?” “where do I go next?” — these questions will reveal flaws in object model, UX, onboarding, and orientation.