Hungary just elected a new PM who wasted zero time — he shut down state propaganda, called out the corrupt officials by name, and started the reckoning on day one. It made me want to write down exactly what that should look like here. So I did.
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Is the groundbreaking idea typically a synthesis of the two poles, or something that escapes the framing altogether? Thanks Ha. This is very enlightening.
Interesting. These three feel like they’re framed as tensions rather than options. Was that deliberate? Is the “disproof condition” essentially just forcing a design hypothesis to have an opposing pole?
What does a well-formed disproof condition look like at the ideation stage? Can you give an example of what that looks like in practice?
Is the gap a mindset problem (designers don’t think probabilistically) or a craft problem (they don’t know how to structure a test)?
I learned so much about corporate lingo this week and the art of managing consultants 🤣
100%
Sounds fair. The exposure to highly nuances problems is probable the main push to think outside the box as well.
Interesting. Do you think it is something that can be practiced to get better?
The 2nd one - how did you practice your observation to get that insight?
‘I will figure it out’ is a different set of skill
It's a shift from being a resource to being an owner
Are we still using the term ‘data-driven’ [insert role]?
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Living with Windows has always been a calculus of how useful it is professionally vs. the amount of unbearable shit you gotta disable with a script and I think we reached a tipping point where it’s majority unbearable shit.
I had a Staff PM who shared this Wu Wei daoism concept to me few years back. It is a practice that apparently helped him in navigating challenges at work and life.
Fact-check: true
Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
Ahmed al Ahmed, 43, has been identified as the man who disarmed one of the Sydney attackers.
Ahmed was shot by the second shooter, who was firing from a bridge. He suffered 2 gunshot wounds and is undergoing surgery.
Congratulations, Ha! Would love to hear more about the patent one day :)
After wrestling a 400-line markdown doc, every auto-layout in Figma feels emotionally dishonest. 😂
I love this.
Thanks Ha. I appreciate your time.
Look, Nvidia thought it was a gaming company and OpenAI thought it was a charity so if you're expecting either of those companies to have some master plan to avoid the bubble popping you need to look elsewhere.
In your experience, where does this comparison-driven falsification break down? Are there domains where forcing divergent artifacts actually misleads rather than clarifies?
I concur. When you craft a falsifier, how do you avoid ones that are too cushioned or ambiguous? A lot of teams unintentionally create hypotheses that are technically ‘falsifiable’ but practically unfalsifiable because the signals are muddy. How do you force the sharpness?
Ha, how do you frame hypotheses so that prototypes don’t become validation theatre? What makes a hypothesis ‘falsifiable enough’ to be useful?
Ok i got to watch it
I am interested to know how do you identify dumb ideas to kill