Blog and Musings from a Tech Worker
One of themes that has become an investing mental model of mine is how successful businesses (and/or products) become a standard in the customers’ minds. Becoming the standard often affords you this psychological and/or physical “moat”. These “standards” come in many forms. They can be from the “mind-share” of the consumer, in the case of…
Learning from Nicholas Sleep (Investment Masters Class) How to Disrupt Network Effects (Breadcrumb.vc, Sameer Singh) Strategy in a Post-Fixed Costs Economy (aperture.co, Ben Robinson)
Like many of us, I’m still processing what is happening. As a small part of the process, I’ve turned to some quotes that seem to resonate with me at the moment. “Every decade or so, dark clouds will fill the economic skies, and they will briefly rain gold. When downpours of that sort occur, it’s…
Maybe this is a deeper topic, but what I’ve learned and continue to think that is important to not forget is about the yin and the yang. The yin in particular, I would characterize as the non-purely logical aspects is important in design and product. I love Rory Sutherland’s thesis in Alchemy: The Dark Art…
FYI: there are some affiliate links used in this post mainly to show the things I’m referring to. I’m starting to get back into the swing of things again, feel the creative juices slowly once more. (Any one know what creative is always paired with juices?!?) The themes that I’ve explored in the past few…