““It’s not data or intuition; it’s data and intuition.””
— Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell a.co/8QVd9cI
“the mission. Ideally it should be the reason you joined the project in the first place. As your project progresses, be sure the mission still makes sense to you and that the path to reach it seems achievable.”
— Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell a.co/f6wWwR1
“The key is persistence and being helpful. Not just asking for something, but offering something. You always have something to offer if you’re curious and engaged. You can always trade and barter good ideas; you can always be kind and find a way to help.”
— Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell a.co/cMF3Gdb
“Steve Jobs once said of management consulting, “You do get a broad cut at companies but it’s very thin. It’s like a picture of a banana: you might get a very accurate picture but it’s only two dimensions, and without the experience of actually doing it you never get three dimensional. So you might have a lot of pictures on your walls, you can show it off to your friends—I’ve worked in bananas, I’ve worked in peaches, I’ve worked in grapes—but you never really taste it.””
— Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell a.co/2WLPzo3
“six categories of most interest to consumers are better health, better fitness, better nutrition, better appearance, better sleep, and better mindfulness. To which a seventh should be added, better mental health.”
— The Future-Ready Brand: How the World’s Most Influential CMOs are Navigating Societal Forces and Emerging Technologies by Mitch Duckler a.co/dKj0wsU
“six categories of most interest to consumers are better health, better fitness, better nutrition, better appearance, better sleep, and better mindfulness.”
— The Future-Ready Brand: How the World’s Most Influential CMOs are Navigating Societal Forces and Emerging Technologies by Mitch Duckler a.co/dLP43vC
“what matters is what you achieve, not how many hours you clock, especially for the employees of creative companies”
— No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer a.co/aJqa3kS
“If you have a team of five stunning employees and two adequate ones, the adequate ones will sap managers’ energy, so they have less time for the top performers, reduce the quality of group discussions, lowering the team’s overall IQ, force others to develop ways to work around them, reducing efficiency, drive staff who seek excellence to quit, and show the team you accept mediocrity, thus multiplying the problem.”
— No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer a.co/dXbELO1
“We learned that a company with really dense talent is a company everyone wants to work for. High performers especially thrive in environments where the overall talent density is high.”
— No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer a.co/65rp4pg
“TALENT DENSITY: TALENTED PEOPLE MAKE ONE ANOTHER MORE EFFECTIVE”
— No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer a.co/acPUuAz
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” —>
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The first key quality of a user-friendly device is something that fundamentally makes the user’s life easier.
“Tobler’s law. Tobler’s law states that near things are more related than distant things. In other words, things that are closer together are more related than things that are farther apart. This seems intuitive when we say it, but the reality is that many traditional statistical and machine learning–based approaches ignore this reality.”
— Spatial Statistics Illustrated by Lauren Bennett, Flora Vale a.co/aNt4YyG
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT COGNITIVE LOAD, IT’S EASY TO UNDERSTAND THAT ANY ONE PERSON HAS A LIMIT ON HOW MUCH INFORMATION THEY CAN HOLD IN THEIR BRAINS AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT.
