Something personal - I want to inject fresh energy to this publication. This is the 61st post, and according to Seth Godin, just a thousand will give us a good start. In his own words, For years, I’ve been explaining to people that daily blogging is an extraordinarily useful habit. Even if no one reads …
Beyond the ‘Toothbrush test’
Some time ago, I mentioned 'The Toothbrush Test' - which offers a shorthand to judge potential success of products. If people use it twice a day, the product will be successful. But of course, this is not always true. Andrew Chen's new post talks about it in detail, and I suggest you have a look. A …
Word Power
Words are a critical part of User Experience. I have been watching a bit of The Crown, a Netflix series based on the life of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd. It shows notable personalities like Winston Churchill and Lord Mountbatten, in their day to day life, and I recommend it for the detail. In a few scenes …
Art is not an option
Just yesterday, out of some reflections over a long walk, I wrote that Everyone should make Art, and today I stumbled on this talk by Jordan Peterson. Some of the interesting quotes from the video: "Beauty is unbelievably crucial to economic development." "Buy a damn piece of art, find one that really speaks to you." …
Everyone should make Art
I just did a google search on 'everyone should code'. These are the top 3 results: It's almost a religion, everyone should do it. This worldview is wrong. To be clear, I agree that learning to code will help almost everyone (I worked as a coder for a year), as coding makes you a disciplined …
Lindy Effect & Design Tools
Today I tried out the prototyping tool called Axure RP, for a few hours, just for practice. It kind of blew my mind. For designing previous products, I have always used Sketch + InVision (and Adobe Illustrator in early learning phase). And played a bit with Facebook's custom made Origami. I was delighted by the …
Empowerment and Ambition, the new face of Venture Capital
Venture Capital seems to be shifting, towards a more structured, disciplined and data-driven model, with a focus on ambitious, hard problems. Auren Hoffman wrote a piece on Quora about how VCs never do what they tell their companies to do. Here are some points he highlights : (though I recommend the original) They have different …
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