Tejas Gawande
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Co-founder, Chronicle. Product geek.
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Where will we see luxury software transform markets? Already, in the consumer productivity space, we’re starting to see “luxury” email clients, calendars, browsers, and search engines emerge. While all of these capabilities are freely accessible to consumers and rather commoditized, companies like Superhuman for email, Cron (now Notion) for... See more
Scott Belsky • Disruptive Interfaces & the Rise of Luxury Software
Luxury software. In the world of luxury software, designers will shift from being “interface builders” to “software artists.”
Great ideas come from stretching our imagination and focusing on the core need. How can we improve performance for people who spend the most time doing X or care about how they are perceived doing X?
In a pre-AI world, whether you were building software or teams, or writing books or marketing plans, you needed to strip the problems you were facing down to their bare elements—their essence—and work your way forward from there. In building software, you need to define your core user and the problem you want to solve; in writing books, you need a... See more
Dan Shipper • Five New Thinking Styles for Working With Thinking Machines
Essences vs. sequences
Companionship content is the most durable in its closeness to human experience, to being around people . When we search for a YouTube video to watch, we often want the best companion for the next hour and not the most entertaining content.
- While short-form content edits are meant to be spectacular and attention-grabbing, long-form content tends to
Anu Atluru • Companionship Content is King
Companionship content is more human. It is like being in a long, stimulating conversation with a group of friends.
Companionship content is long-form content that can be consumed passively — allowing the consumer to be incompletely attentive, and providing a sense of relaxation, comfort, and community.
Companionship content isn’t consumed just for information or entertainment, but as a proxy for having company around, a way to mitigate the awareness of lacking it, or to make an otherwise dull task enjoyable — with a companion.
Great ideas take time
Opportunity is a function of density
Opportunity is a function of surrounding oneself with successful people.
Studies show that individuals end up resembling their five closest friends in various aspects of life. While they may have similar incomes, their financial outcomes vary greatly.
To achieve financial security and success, it is advisable to be... See more
Opportunity is a function of surrounding oneself with successful people.
Studies show that individuals end up resembling their five closest friends in various aspects of life. While they may have similar incomes, their financial outcomes vary greatly.
To achieve financial security and success, it is advisable to be... See more
You rise or fall to the level of your peer group
“Inspiration comes on the twenty-fifth attempt, not the first. If you want to make something excellent, don’t wait for a brilliant idea to strike. Create twenty-five of what you need and one will be great. Inspiration reveals itself after you get the average ideas out of the way, not before you take the first step.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On the source of inspiration, the bond between love and grief, and the power of hope
Ideas take time
You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why.
youtube.comBe bored. If you learn to be bored, you may end up happier.
Aristocratic tutoring was not focused on measurables. Historically, it usually involved a paid adult tutor, who was an expert in the field, spending significant time with a young child or teenager, instructing them but also engaging them in discussions, often in a live-in capacity, fostering both knowledge but also engagement with intellectual... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Childhoods of Exceptional People
Exceptional people were heavily tutored 1-on-1 (Not just regular tutoring). Helping another person grow rapidly requires a deep and delicate bond.