myopia
Reading may be bad for you. Most close-up, text-heavy, first-world white collar service work may be bad for you. Strong claims, and they do come with caveats, such as "if you're already genetically or otherwise predisposed to nearsightedness". Myopia, or nearsightedness is a condition where the
An old financial commercial (or was it some other product?) advertised that the greeks had a lot of different words for love. That's good, and it makes a lot of sense, and there are definitely distinctions from platonic (friends?), erotic (sex?), romantic (really close stuff, but not necessarily
livelihood
80% (or more) for Taylor Swift and 20% (or less) for the gal with the great voice at the corner pub.
learning
In figure skating a panel of judges works from some rubric to evaluate a skater's skating. Usually they won't all have the same evaluation. A keen observer or a camera at the finish line determines race finish time.
livelihood
Once in a great while there comes a person so perpendicular to what typifies a field that they might upend it.
storytelling
"I would say the harm is the mono-myth is a machine designed intentionally or not to make you a narcissist. The mono-myth is all about how a singular entity has the entire universe laid out for him" -- Abraham Riesman
vision
What would it look like to go on such a quest today?
analogy
The metaphor is for tough situations we encounter. It seems it could also be used for ethical questions.
shape up
"This isn’t a spec. It’s more like the boundaries and rules of a game. It could go in countless different ways once it’s time to play."
inspired
This is the final entry in a four-part series covering my takeaways from Inspired.
inspired
This time, I'll give some notes about stuff that stuck out to me from part 3, which is about what it means to describe the right product, and how to evaluate how we're doing when getting to product-market fit.
inspired
Part 2 delves a bit more into the different roles involved in a well-functioning product team, and what those roles do.