Zach Davidson
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Zach Davidson
The innovative mindset of questioning everything, as exemplified by Steve Jobs, and how companies lose this vision.
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Steve gives some great advice on how to think about building great products. He says, your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them. It's a rare person who etches grooves that are other than a specific way of looking at
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From David Ogilvy:
... See moreThrough maddening repetition, some of my obiter dicta have been woven into our culture. Here are some of them:
(1) “We sell – or else."
(2) “You cannot bore people into buying your product; you can only interest them in buying it.”
(3) "We prefer the discipline of knowledge to the anarchy of ignorance. We pursue knowledge the way a
A. Why are we moving away from social media as we know it? B. What defines the post-social media era? C. How are we taking control over our feeds – and attention – again? D. Why are we shifting from horizontal social networks to vertical, niche micro-communities? E. What will the collective experiences of the future look like? F. How is the gig... See more
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Moog One - A Meditation On Listening
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docs.google.combits & bobs - someone’s public notes
Knowledge of the world isn’t the same as experiencing the world. Why does online connection so often seem to lack aliveness, as compared to encounters with the world of flesh-and-blood people, nature, and material things? This paragraph from Karl Ove Knausgaard struck me as eloquent: “It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images
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