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The solution might be a meta layer on top of the productivity stack that works horizontally across all function workflows.

Julian Lehr • Superhuman & the Productivity Meta-Layer

Like Dopamine Labs, a Scarcity API would likely be net-evil. But it could be a big business. What if a new software company could programmatically “drop” new features only to users with sufficient engagement, or online at the time of an event? What if unique styles could be purchased only in a specific window of time?

Mario Gabriele • Scarcity as an API

Nat Friedman

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Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)

Mobile revolution aside, increasingly finding the desktop as my center of gravity. A few factors at play, but implications are interesting for developers, app store policies, and evolving our assumptions about the workplace of the future. Any other factors driving this?

Scott Belsky

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Postman believed that technological change tended to shape every aspect of the world around us, and that its danger was that it would set the boundaries for our thinking. The major risk Postman identified is that we might begin to accept technology as a part of nature, as though it were the inescapable way of things. We have to remember that these ... See more

Instinct. Prototype. Derisk. Decide.

Sharpen thinking over time as you iterate to get clearer on the value you provide

Annual checkin…

If you were to build it today what would we build… what is the dinner / elevator pitch. And what is keeping us from getting there right now.

Quarterly checkin.

Here is what we’re working on. You control priority. What va

A great story about simplicity from Akio Morita, the instigator of the Walkman project at Sony:

Engineers had the technology to add the recording function to the Walkman and it would’ve cost only 50 cents to a dollar per unit. Morita decided against it. He wanted the device to have one function, which it performs very well. Walkman should only play