Susie Conley

Why not just apple notes? Apple notes are good for a quick jot down. But it’s not to help you refine your thinking over time like Logseq will. Notes  can be much bigger, such as writing a book, or to design software.

40:00 Support those existing communities. They put time and effort into cultivating those communities outside of the brand. Then you’ll find when it gets large, e.g. 20K at Logseq, people pop in, ask instead of search for existing answers, and then it requires moderators to manage it. Notion found themselves in a position where they blew up on... See more

• Corporate R&D, usually requires commercialization on a very short timeline.

• 31:00 The aim is to bring the best parts across such as zero latency for your digital pen to respond, but then expanding the potential of what you can do now that you’re in a computing / virtual space.

48:00 Where and how you post content or reach your users to form community entirely depends on knowing your users. Know their personas, their user journey paths, do they start on your forums, or in chat, or is their default behavior when looking for stuff to type into YouTube. For Logseq 90% of how-to content is videos because of the nature of the... See more

0:00 - Brian: “What I look for when I’m hiring designers, or what is the experience of encountering someone on the internet is”…“proof of curiosity.” Is this person curious about the world to an extent that they take action on that curiosity? One simple example is when you learn about something, and you tweet about it and share it.

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Shawn's tip for when to Specialize vs Generalize: Specialize in peace time and generalize in war time. Having a mastery of a domain is highest reward. Yet when you are on a small team, that's usually when you generalize, because no one else is there to do things.