Simon Joliveau Breney
@simonjb
Simon Joliveau Breney
@simonjb
by fusing the domains into a single experience, new levels of integration could be achieved. for example emails, texts and calendar events with a specific person could appear in a single timeline. you could share an event, your notes on it and the contact info of the organizers in one go.
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
... See moreThe biggest thing about writing down strategic choices is that they serve to build a corporate history (over a year or two, not really thinking about decades). Why decisions are made is rather important because companies, like people, can make the same mistakes over time without history.
Writing and Management
The “About Me/Us” section above is externally facing. Guiding principles on the other hand are internal and represent the core values and beliefs that provide a framework for reacting and making product decisions regardless of the situation. It ensures you and your team all react in a manner that is favorable to the success of your products. What
... See moreIn Four Thousand Weeks I explored the fascinating work of the art historian Jennifer Roberts, and carried out her exercise of looking at a single painting for three hours straight, so as to experience the truth that really seeing a painting is an undertaking that just takes the time it takes.
Art and Thought provoking
Research shows that the more you create, the more creative you become.
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 computer’s incredibly specific language just to use it properly.
Affordance and
In the coming years, as LLM producers consolidate their power, framing alignment as censorship is critical so we can hold producers, and by proxy, the states that influence them, accountable.