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Jeff Bezos’ Annual Letter
A must read. Once you are done, make a wall calender of the following. “So, have you settled only for decision quality, or are you mindful of decision velocity too? Are the world’s trends tailwinds for you? Are you falling prey to proxies, or do they serve you? And most important of all, are you…
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“I basically broke the rules. I was told point-blank that I couldn’t change the canvas or do anything to it. And I got fed up with doing what I thought would please the head of communications. I got tired of playing by the rules. And I thought, The only time I’ve ever made a difference,…
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Writing in Design
Couldn’t agree more with this. “Long before I make my way to Photoshop or Sketch, my process begins with an articulation of the problem in written form. I have to assign meaning to the problem and understand its implications before I can begin to imagine a solution. Design is a language that is greater than…
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Steve Jobs on Idea vs Product
“And that disease—I’ve seen other people get it too—it’s the disease of thinking that really great idea is 90% of the work. And that if you just tell all these other people, you know, “Here’s this great idea,” then of course they can go off and make it happen. And the problem with that is,…
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I’m With Her
From Michael Bierut on DesignObserver: “In response, Loewy had developed a reliable formula. If something was familiar, make it surprising. If something was surprising, make it familiar.”
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John Maeda on Design, Art and Inclusion
John Maeda is always very concise. No waste of words. These fifty minutes are well worth of your time. I actually listened to this twice in two hours.
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Artificial “narrow” Intelligence
Ben Thompson while writing on AI: “In fact, we already have a better word for this kind of innovation: technology. Technology, to use Merriam-Webster’s definition, is “the practical application of knowledge especially in a particular area.” The story of technology is the story of humanity: the ability to control fire, the wheel, clubs for fighting…
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Musk’s crusade to stop AI Apocalypse
From VF Hive: “Some in Silicon Valley argue that Musk is interested less in saving the world than in buffing his brand, and that he is exploiting a deeply rooted conflict: the one between man and machine, and our fear that the creation will turn against us. They gripe that his epic good-versus-evil story line…
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The Inner Game of Tennis
I have started avoiding self-help books recently. I felt like I was not getting anything from them. I was just looking for dopamine hit. So I don’t know why exactly I picked this one up—maybe because of tennis. But I am glad I did. I won’t call this a self-help book anyway. It’s more about managing…
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Ben Thompson on Apple’s pricing strategy
From Stratechery (Paywall): “It turns out there are two distinct strategies — the iPhone strategy and the iPod strategy … The most important difference between the iPhone and iPod pricing strategies is perhaps the most counterintuitive: how essential is the product in question? That is because any product has to answer two questions: Do I…
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