Simon Joliveau Breney
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Simon Joliveau Breney
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 tasks to perform lower down on the list. Doing these tasks becomes a way of not doing the things higher up on the list.
John Perry • Structured Procrastination
Productivity and Funny
Meta operates with a top-down ideation approach, led by Mark Zuckerberg, but emphasizes bottom-up execution.
Lenny Rachitsky • Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth
The typical time horizon for a product team’s north star, or long-term vision, is three to four years out. Usually it’s a document describing like what the world will look like and what the user experience should be like and what’s different from today.
Ken Norton • Building Products at Airbnb
Le port du Havre, Albert Marquet
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 our first principle: before embarking on any new learning project, try to figure out how other people organize efforts to learn it. What do those people see as the major divisions in skill, knowledge
... See moreScott H Young • Lesson 2: The Three Questions for Effective Meta-Learning
What you don’t want to happen is unsustainable stress, or for people to not share failure or tell you when you’re wrong. So you need to actively fight this as the leader by: a) asking for dissent (“does everyone agree this is the right path? Does anyone disagree”? and letting a silence hang until someone speaks) b) reward debate. If someone
... See moreSam Gerstenzang • Operating well – what I learned at Stripe
We keep telling ourselves that previous voice interfaces like Alexa or Siri didn’t succeed because the underlying AI wasn’t smart enough, but that’s only half of the story. The core problem was never the quality of the output function, but the inconvenience of the input function: A natural language prompt like “Hey Google, what’s the weather in San
... See moreJulian • The Case Against Conversational Interfaces
User Experience and AI
Another principle we adhere to is creating fault-tolerant interfaces. AI-empowered work is not infallible, especially when it comes to generative tasks. Therefore, we design our AI features to allow for easy user corrections. This flexibility ensures that while AI serves as a helpful starting point, the user always has the final say, thus gradually
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