“When a person is empowered to make a difference, they become more of a full person. They awaken spiritually.”
—Jaron Lanier in GQ
Author: Moses
August 2020 writing focus: managing your life like you’d manage a product
More to come on this, by the end of the last day of this month.
Jony Ive: Our goal isn’t to make money.
Our goal isn’t to make money. Our goal absolutely at Apple is not to make money. This may sound a little flippant, but it’s the…
Andy Johns: find the balance between innovation growth and optimization growth
Andy Johns is widely recognized as an expert in the data-driven, optimization-heavy style of growth popularized by Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter — all places where…
It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.
I have to admit that when I was younger, whenever older executives didn’t see my vision, I would always blame them because they didn’t “get…
Tradeoffs that arise when selecting a North Star Metric
Selecting a North Star Metric is hard, but it can be extraordinarily valuable if done well. Here are some tradeoffs that arise. One metric vs…
Julie Zhou on how Facebook product designers think
Some products and features that we build are destined to succeed, and others to fail. We want to minimize the time we’re spending on the…
Brainstorm techniques for product solution ideation
If you need to brainstorm potential solutions to a product design problem, these techniques might help. Solution Finds You Steps: Start with a well-scoped design…
Intensional and extensional definitions
Of the many arcane and esoteric distinctions that professional logicians make, there’s one that I think is quite valuable outside of philosophical logic. It’s a…
Cosmic fist bump
I have two middle names. They’re both on my birth certificate, but for most of my life I only used the first one. The first…