I think about this twice a day. Every morning when I sit down to read & then when I sit down to write, I say to myself, "Accept the initial agitation." When you try to focus, Andrew Huberman explains, "the brain circuits that turn on first are of the stress system." Meaning:

I love those moments when I randomly get a Jira notification that an engineer on my team just shipped a UX improvement that's been on our backlog.

Patrick Morgan "How reversible is this decision?" The more reversible, the faster you should make it. The less reversible, the more data and confidence you need before making it.

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Deep work is a lot like meditation. It's about overcoming internal distractions to be able to truly focus. Much like meditation, you must realise when you mind has wandered and then gently bring it back to what you were doing. With training, it becomes second nature.

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In my experience, MVPs are usually misused to ship the barest of features just to satisfy stakeholder's pressure to release things quickly.

this is horrible advise. i’ve been there and can’t recommend. took me over a year to get out of it. instead I’d suggest this: 1) make YOU and your physical and mental health the #1 priority in life. Then your family, then your company. 2) work with a therapist to identify

Your first design, while it may seem like a solution, is usually just an early definition of the problem you are trying to solve. lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?2…

Consumer research is mostly about the category - not the brand. You cannot use it to shape your unique POV or differentiation, or to innovate. All competing brands operate within a category (eg. furniture). They all do consumer research. The mistake brands make is following

Wonderful lesson on systems thinking 👇

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you don’t have to “build” anything to be happy

It seems common for software companies to take the "release it and iterate on it later" approach. But it also seems common for companies to release software that is hard to change later. e.g. "The thing we released is slow. Can we make it faster?" "Not without 6 months of work."

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The learning gap in design…