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Design• 17
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Across all creative fields, what isn’t there is just as important as what is there. In fashion, Coco Chanel advised, “Before you leave the house, look

Software development• 10
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Paintings• 7
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Benoit Trimborn - Regards sur le Paysage

Beauty• 1
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Music• 2
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Watch list• 1
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Thought provoking• 41
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“We do think in words, and the fewer words we know, the more restricted our thoughts. As our vocabulary expands, so does our power to think." - L'Eng

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood. – Voltaire

AI• 24
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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

Writing• 22
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Francis Ford Coppola writes in his books. More than that, he thinks this practice is essential: I think it’s important to put your impressions down o

Management• 8
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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

Exhibit a ferocious and intelligently applied work ethic directed at continual improvement; demonstrate respect for each person in the organization an

Product Management• 82
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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

Productivity• 19
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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

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

Photography• 2
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Weird or nice packaging• 1
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Prompts to test• 9
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"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?

Fight anxiety• 1
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“if we can recognise that change and uncertainty are basic principles,” as the futurist and environmentalist Hazel Henderson put it, “we can greet the

Joy• 1
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Capitalism• 1
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Beautiful movies• 1
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Friendships• 3
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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