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What I do is chunk decks into five to eight slide segments. I never ask for 20 slides at once. I structure it this way. First conversation covers slid
What I do is use ChatGPT for research and analysis, then switch to Claude for writing. This is a common pattern in my workflow. I’ll spend an hour wor
IA Et Discovery Produit : Agents, Rôles Et Pratiques À Réinventer
Give good feedback (and ask for it, explicitly). A lot has been said elsewhere so I’ll go with: do it frequently and immediately, from a place of care
When I was working on ads one of the values we developed for our leadership team was to Be Plainspoken. That means communicating in an unadorned manne
Be Plainspoken
Exhibit a ferocious and intelligently applied work ethic directed at continual improvement; demonstrate respect for each person in the organization an
Another way to make your trials even more effective is to offer them multiple times. Many companies believe that users will just abuse this but, if yo
Engaged users are usually happy to pay for your product as they understand the value and use it regularly, but users that are only just getting set up
SaaS Trials: How to Design Trials That Convert to Paying Customers
What feels more challenging for me right now: committing to structure or letting go of control? What might that reveal about the type of discipline I
This is hard for me. It’s actually easier for me to do more and work more, than to stop and listen to my energy levels and inspiration and create from
The New Edge of Soft Discipline
When there's a deadline, there's also a destination, a context, a reason for something. And that's what makes me finish it. Up until that point, it's
"You are an extremely skilled lacanian analyst with decades of clinical experience and training in coherence therapy. You use a transference-focused p
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
Editing trick: Try running your writing through AI and asking what some people might find obnoxious. It’s a surprisingly powerful editing trick.
fav chatGPT prompt: Based on all of our interactions, what is the question that I should be asking, but am not?
Duhigg argues for three broad types of conversations: practical (What are we going to do?), emotional (How do we feel about it?), and identity (Who ar
Here’s 8 Books I Read on Making Friends This Month
People expect their partners to be indifferent to them and to be bored by their self-disclosure. But people are far more interested in our innermost t
Once you’ve set goals, you need to reinforce them everywhere. Constantly restate the goal and how it maps to your vision and strategy. Ask how every i
It’s called The MTO™ Technique. Instead of writing a goal in The Dreaded Binary Technique, you break every goal into three levels: • Minimum • Tar
The Best Goal-Achievement Strategy
Fwd: Forget Resolutions: How to Plan an Epic 2025
Only in newer keyboards are the letters printed on top of the keys, or charred from their surface by a laser. In older ones – those from the early 196
In 1968, Douglas Engelbart demonstrated a computer system called the oN-Line System, or NLS. The NLS is the source of a lot of computer firsts. Among
The desktop user interface is a mainstay of computing. Bread and butter, if you will. A pointer, icons, windows, menus and buttons, controlled using a
But we shouldn't build entire paradigms, or even just individual interfaces, based on the assumption that everyone else is using computers the same wa
Star Trek: The quintessential computer of the future. Touchy, talky and, er, video-y.
Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design
Los Angeles, for example, has already been fully modeled by others. I didn't need to recreate it. Ditto for the desert or the puma. You go to this 3-D
I used to love open worlds for, in a nutshell, being virtual environments vast enough to get thoroughly lost in with no guarantee of what I'd find. Th
How the Checklist Conquered the Open World, From Morrowind to Skyrim
One of the more abstract but dire consequences of this streaming mentality is that we’ve started to treat art and culture like wallpaper. The rise of
the message the company is sending is one tech companies have been telegraphing for years: You don’t “own” anything digital, even if you paid us for i
It’s not just enough for me personally to be running a fast OODA loop—in a large group, everyone needs to be autonomously making frequent, high-qualit
How I’ve run major projects
Consistency just feels good to our system centric product/engineering/design brains. But it creates a huge coordination cost and prohibits local exper
Operating well – what I learned at Stripe
All learning is composed of a few basic “atoms” of knowledge in three main types: Facts—things which need to be memorized. Words, terms, formulas, da
Lesson 2: The Three Questions for Effective Meta-Learning
Learning and meta-learning are intertwined, so the less we know about a subject, the less we know about how that subject is organized. This leads to
Choosing your daily Highlight starts with asking yourself a question: What do I want to be the highlight of my day?
168 hours is enough time to work 50 hours a week, sleep 8 hours a night, and still spend massive amounts of time with your children. But since all hou
Itzler's philosophy is to inject “new-ness” into your life with a handful of mini-adventures throughout the year. Think 1-2 day experiences, spaced ou
Forget broad resolutions. Instead, Itzler suggests choosing one big, hard, year-defining challenge. He calls this a "Misogi," which stems from an anci
So, business strategy vs product strategy? They are the same thing. It makes no sense to think of them as different. Product is one tool in the box. I
Sometimes getting the right positioning for your startup is more challenging than getting to the product itself. “Often it’s not that you don’t know w
At a high level, the steps of this process are to: • Observe: Gain situational awareness via all your senses • Orient: Contextualize what you obse
The OODA Loop Explained: The Real Story About the Ultimate Model for Decision-Making in Competitive Environments
“Speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk taking.” — Bias for Ac
“Good process serves you so you can serve customers. But if you’re not watchful, the process can become the thing. This can happen very easily in larg
“A good failure is when the value of the lesson is greater than the cost of the lesson. A bad failure is when the value of the lesson is much less tha
Saying “Alexa, ask AnyList to add spaghetti to my grocery list” is not seamless interaction with an all-knowing assistant; that’s having to learn a co
Our phones are mostly a series of disconnected experiences — Instagram is a universe entirely apart from TikTok and Snapchat and your calendar app and
Why Amazon Never Turned Alexa Skills Into the Future of Apps - The Verge
Saying “Alexa, ask AnyList to add spaghetti to my grocery list” is not seamless interaction with an all-knowing assistant; that’s having to learn a co
Our phones are mostly a series of disconnected experiences — Instagram is a universe entirely apart from TikTok and Snapchat and your calendar app and
Why Amazon Never Turned Alexa Skills Into the Future of Apps - The Verge
Le poste de radio dont parle l'article est vraiment un bon exemple — aujourd'hui, si je veux écouter la radio en faisant la vaisselle, il faut d'abord
Saying “Alexa, ask AnyList to add spaghetti to my grocery list” is not seamless interaction with an all-knowing assistant; that’s having to learn a co
Our phones are mostly a series of disconnected experiences — Instagram is a universe entirely apart from TikTok and Snapchat and your calendar app and
I’ve spent years reading, experimenting, and gathering ideas about this. And while I won’t claim to have the secret recipe to cure all issues, there’s
Right-first-time and Just-in-time over Working software over comprehensive documentation
Building a Learning Organisation over Responding to change over following a plan
The list of tasks one has in mind will be ordered by importance. Tasks that seem most urgent and important are on top. But there are also worthwhile t
the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more importan
A good rule of thumb is to take the word that out of your apology. Instead of saying, “I’m sorry that…”, start by saying, “I’m sorry I…” This acknowle
When you say “I'm sorry that you felt that way,” you are making the problem someone else's. You’re implying that they’re the one at fault for finding
Admitting You Are Wrong