Vaibhav Arora
@whybhav
Vaibhav Arora
As Heisenberg pointed out, how we measure something matters a great deal: What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
Faris Yakob • Quantum Advertising | WARC
What gets measured, gets managed. What we measure are the questions we ask to quantify the problem.
I’d say that that huh is the foundational block of curiosity. To get good at the huh is to get good at both paying attention and nurturing compassion; if you don’t notice, you can’t give a shit. But the huh is only half the equation. You gotta go huh, alright — the “alright,” the follow-up, the openness to what comes next is where the cascade lives... See more
Craig Mod • Looking Closely Is Everything
The first huh is the level 1 hypothesis that you gather from looking closely at anything, the alright is validation of that hypothesis.
The downstream ideas that come post the first alright makes the whole difference.
Wildenhaus’s description has stayed with me because it reflects how the best software products aren’t just assemblages of functionality ,exposed by particular formal elements (links, buttons, icons, menus). Rather, they organize and shape how you think, and they create or sustain a particular lifestyle:
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
Product building is not utility building but use case building. Utilities are actions, use cases are mental models