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Increasingly believe that the "good, cheap, fast—choose two" maxim is devious misinformation spread by the slow.
In my experience, "slow" and "expensive" usually go together. I was in a meeting yesterday where lopping a year off a project schedule also ended up reducing the cost substantially. Fundamentally, it takes time to spend, and adding the ... See more
Patrick Collisonx.comMost companies, even in the highly competitive world of the consumer Internet, still think it’s sufficient to conduct a lot of A/B tests and iterate accordingly. This is an effective tactic but poor strategy, since local optimizations do not necessarily lead to a globally optimal result.
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Garry Tan isn't just the CEO of Y Combinator.
He's also a passionate writer, has a YouTube channel with 251,000 subscribers, and once turned a $300k investment into $2 billion.
Here are 10 of his best ideas:
1. How to write a good YC application: Teach the reader something… Show more
@shreyas IMO the best product will stem from a very strong mental model of the domain and the users. UXR can help you *get* to such a model, and validate it along the way, but it's important to view the syllogism as UXR -> model -> product, not UXR -> product.
Patrick Collisonx.com
Your attention span isn’t fixed. It increases with practice.
Evidence: After 20min sessions solving cognitively challenging problems (10-20hrs total), students show significant gains in sustained focus and test scores.
Like physical stamina, mental stamina requires exercise. https://t.co/RTnfnMCKG3
While Wimdu was able to quickly announce impressive numbers, the hard side of the network wasn’t fully formed or curated to reflect quality.