Vyara Ndejuru
@vyarandejuru
we’ll see I guess
Vyara Ndejuru
"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. WhaThe Taste Economy is the idea that there are essentially only three business moats: proprietary technology, supply chain innovation and taste.
Daisy Alioto
My Comments Are in the Google Doc Linked in the Dropbox I Sent in the Slack
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
Implementation does not necessarily proceed from invention. It, too, requires luck and circumstances
We cannot reverse engineer the taste of food from looking at the nutritional label
Stoicism is the domestication, not the elimination, of emotions
