Vyara Ndejuru
@vyarandejuru
we’ll see I guess
Vyara Ndejuru
- All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But it's like there is this gap. For the first couple years that you're making stuff, what you're making isn't so good. It’s not that great. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but it’s not that good.
from THE GAP by Ira Glass by Ira Glass
"The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge."
Source: The Auteur Theory of Design (2009)
Rediscovering Ikigai: What We Got Wrong and How to Find Meaning in Life
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One unique Japanese concept is the idea of ikigai, which can be roughly translated to reason for being (or “raison d’être” in my native French) . Each person’s ikigai is personal to them, reflective of their inner self, and creating a mental state in which they feel at ease. Wha- GO DIRECT: THE MANIFESTO I. TRADITIONAL PR IS DEAD. For too long, founders have yielded control over their narratives to media and middlemen. Before the internet, it was by necessity. The way to reach large audiences was through the media, and the way to get media coverage was… Show more
The best spokesperson for any endeavor is not the one who has the most polish, the longest tenure, or the “right” credentials. It’s the person who holds the secret knowledge upon which the enterprise is built, the person who can not only describe the idea but, in the face of inevitable opposition, fight for it and win.
Founders need to take their narrative as seriously as they take the rockets or robots. They would never outsource their product — and when it comes to convincing others to support the mission, the story is the product. Outsourcing comms is as bad as outsourcing code. As evangelists, founders are irreplaceable.
The Taste Economy is the idea that there are essentially only three business moats: proprietary technology, supply chain innovation and taste.
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Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive product | Linear
the modern MVP exercise is about building a version of an idea that is different from and better than what exists today. Most of us aren’t building for a net-new market. Rather, we’re finding opportunities to improve existing categories
High Fructose corn sugar was the result of [neomania](https://www.shortform.com/blog/neomania-antifragile/), financed by a Nixon administration in love with technology and victim of some urge to subsidize corn farmers