Stupid Matters

After all, we’re all pretty dumb about most things.

– Jess Zimmerman, from Everyone’s opinions are fatiguing after a while – even your own

The best feedback is the one most likely to create empathy and elicit product change.

– Cemre Güngör, from How to give better product feedback

Before the ship can be on course – right or wrong, the ship must not be sinking.

Trying to hold on to worthless jobs is a terrible but popular idea. Trying to find new jobs for billions of people is a good idea but obviously very hard because whatever the new jobs are, they will probably be so fundamentally different from anything that exists today that meaningful planning is almost impossible. But the current strategy—’let’s just pretend that Travis is kidding when he talks about self-driving cars and that Uber really is going to create millions of jobs forever’—is not the right answer.

Sam Altman, in The Software Revolution

the most dramatic, romantic season — ever.

– Chris Harrison

– The great Ron Swanson

It’s that ideas are easier to come up with than you think. What’s hard —really hard— is moving from an idea to a reality. It’s hard to find the right form of an idea, a form that will let consumers see its value, understand how to interact with it, and feel excited enough to pay for it. That is so hard that it often takes a team of people to do it. And that’s when the level of hard goes even higher. Suddenly you have to find a way to hire the right people, get them all focused on the right thing and make sure no one forgets why they got together in the first place in this world of interesting (and profitable) other things to do.

– Christina Wodtke, Execution is Everything