Everyone in design circles loves to pontificate about taste, but it's always the people with portfolios that look like a Vegas casino who have the most to say. Taste is the emperor's new clothes of the creative industry, claimed by all, possessed by few, recognized only by those who already have it.
But the twisted irony of taste is its resistance... See more
ISAACSON: What would you be doing now if you were a young person when it comes to something like AI?
GATES: There are certainly a lot of innovative things that the world needs, whether it’s in diseases or clean climate technologies. But the most profound technology is AI, because it’s going to have such an impact on all the scientific work we do and... See more
ISAACSON: In writing this memoir, you said the more you dug in, the more you remembered. How is human memory fundamentally different from computer memory?
GATES: It’s unbelievable how good humans are at discarding unimportant information and retaining what’s important. We evolved to find food and not get lost, things like that. So I can remember all... See more
summarize the last 50 user interviews and cluster the main pain points by frequency and intensity. suggest 3 product bets with highest signal-to-noise.”
“given the user feedback and usage data, write a product spec for a new onboarding flow. include edge cases and counterarguments