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Often designs from frustration
Right now, greater skill is being brought by compute and developing a democratization of many things (code, design, etc.). Because of this, taste will probably be the most important skill
Taste is derived from culture and overlap of industries
Because of that

Every PM should save these 2 screenshots to their desktop. @bhorowitz's Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager: (15 years old and still ridiculously relevant.) https://t.co/8EFB1476Wu... See more

Carl Vellotti

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From David Ogilvy:

Through 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 p

My notes from Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham: The way to create something beautiful is often to make subtle tweaks to something that already exists, or to combine existing ideas in a slightly new way. There are only two things you have to know about business: build something users love, and make more than you spend. If you get these two ri... See more

People dramatically under estimate how many decisions one has to make before shipping the v1 of even the simplest product. They all seem obvious in retrospect, but so, so much thinking had to happen to ship something like "press a button, get a ride."

Monopolies are bad. Violence is bad. Monopolies on violence turn out to be one of the best ideas ever. Go figure. #ThinkingIsHard

Ideas from George Mack:

1. Subprime audience - A creator optimising for size of audience and ending up with a junk audience. They end up producing content they themselves wouldn’t consume.

2. The forgetting paradox - Wordle outperformed every headline in society's consciousness for 2022. All the news everyone was worried outlasted by a novelty game..

101 design rules

Musings, ramblings, and principles that I’ve shared with my team and randomly on Twitter. Reminding yourself of the principles that ground you is simply a good practice. Here are mine.

By Brian Collins

Design is hope made visible.
You can live your life as the result of history and what came before, or you can live your life as the cau

I wanted to make a product and sell it directly to people who’d care about its quality. There’s an incredible connection possible when you align your financial motivations with the service of your users. It’s an entirely different category of work than if you’re simply trying to capture eyeballs and sell their attention, privacy, and dignity in bul... See more

Reconsider

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My notes: https://t.co/Rubf44uRct

John Borthwick

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