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On agency and its rewards
User Stories are narratives that foster collaboration, guide development and drive meaningful outcomes.
But many use them as containers for requirements.
So here's User Stories 101:
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Creative Thinking: Diverge and Converge
Here is my current guide on how to do stuff with AI.
10 things that require discipline and zero talent
While bumble bees live socially in hives usually located underground (with 50 - 500 individuals), foragers or males can happen to sleep in flowers, especially when tired after too much work.
Realtime WebGL, galaxy in a Snow Globe!
(three.js, glsl and ts)
Midjourney has changed so much over the last year
My process & approach to generating imagery has fundamentally shifted
It used to be all about finding the right words, now it's more about visually directing your scene
I'm gonna start breaking down my process thread by thread
Advice you needed to hear
Most successful rebrands in history:
War Department -> Dept. of Defense (1947)
Global Warming -> Climate Change (2006)
...
Cron Job -> AI Agent (2024)
Hypothesis Testing
Honestly if someone put this on their resume and I read it, I'd respect it and not hold it against them in the job consideration. Job hunting is a numbers game!
Sam Altman on recognising if your startup idea is great
After building +40 apps over the last decade, I think the most valuable skill is an ability to correctly sequence the things that need to validated for the concept to work.
For example:
1. Users need to share the app X number times for the app to have a basis to grow
2. The shares then need to convert to downloads at X rate
3. Then, X% of users need to pay
While this would obviously improve the velocity of product development, that’s actually not the most important reason why sequencing matters:
Knowing the correct sequencing means you can clearly articulate where the uncertainty with a product concept lies—and what conditions must be true for a subsequent condition to even matter.
Without understanding what’s uncertain, you’re just throwing things at a wall and hoping something sticks.
The Distinctions Between Theory, Theoretical Framework, and Conceptual Framework
🚨 ChatGPT adds “Background Conversations” in its latest update.
It allows you to keep the conversation going even if you are using other apps or your screen is off.
GPT-4o new voice feature might be coming soon!
The man @jasonfried said something cool that I’ve been thinking about:
Make your company extra weird in the beginning. Lean into that shit.
Because as you grow, that flavor can get shut down.
People start acting corporate and vanilla.
So if you can be extra weird early on, even if people tone it down, your brand and culture is still unique.
I screwed this up at my last company. Came out the gate with fire and flavor.
But as we grew, I let boring shit happen (often leading the charge myself).
Why: I got lazy with hiring, didn’t stick to the values, I didn’t explicitly express what we stood for, didn’t get buy in.
Should have had the attitude of “this is what we are about and if you’re not about, we ain’t for you.”
With employees and customers!
Like a desperate person willing to go on a date with anyone who’ll give him a chance!
I tried all these creatives for Meta Ads ($13,000 spent)
1 of them outperforms them all — Which one?
$17 per purchase ($199 value) or 12 ROAS (Return On Ads Spent)
How to practice emotional intelligence
I’m shocked hearing makers say: “all ideas are taken…”
That’s false, see great example:
1. He found a real problem
2. I really need a solution
3. He identified me as a target audience
4. He compiled an amazing cold email
5. I’m a customer
6. It’s not a copycat
Sie sind eine Heldin, @PreislerKa ! Wurde mir gerade zugeschickt:
“I have yet to meet a slow-moving person who is very successful.”
— Sam Altman
My theory: burnout has nothing to do with how many hours or how hard you work. It's caused by working for people you don't like, towards goals you don't believe in, in systems that grant you no agency.