Yank on the bandit one more time baby!
It’s a trope of the Silicon Valley approach to try to engineer away the need for human relationships. Almost like they don’t really like humans or something.
It isn't possible to be scolded, or even distracted, into happiness. The more fully you accept and love your child no matter what their experience is and how they feel about it, the more capacity for happiness they will have. This goes for you as well as for your children.
A few years ago, I read an article from @johncutle.fish and @tomdkerwin.bsky.social on how leaders navigate uncertainty and ambiguity. It inspired me to write my answers down to a new section of questions every few years.
This is part two! It's been fun to look back and see my thinking mature
Thanks to @erikahall.bsky.social @amyhoy.bsky.social @camerontw.bsky.social @dougrabow.bsky.social @tomdkerwin.bsky.social @edzitron.com @goodspeed.bsky.social @acuity.design @allenholub.bsky.social for the writing that made it into this milestone issue of the Picnic!
VCs fund companies who get on the latest hype train. But when the product doesn't solve any real problems, showing "progress" is impossible!
So a lot of people are going to come back to the office this week and set goals based on what activity is easiest to measure, rather than what is important.
Also I enjoy the game of trying to guess who’s piece you’re going to link to before I click the link.
Today, I guessed @hiredthought.bsky.social right away :)
Another banger
One company lost 30 points of NPS in a single day.
Not because customers were unhappy. Not because the product changed. Not because anything in the real world was different.
So what actually happened? And why did they cover it up?
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Putting an idea out there that just occurred to me while chatting about 'The Thick of It' with @tomdkerwin.bsky.social - I think the UK needs a 'Silicon Valley' type satire.
A British startup trying to be ambitious, but hampered by insecurities and class differences.
You’re in for a treat!
Loving the gang you’ve gathered together in that piece.
WEIRD. It doesn’t do the skewhiff thing for me
I will pay for that crime against our topographic forebears
Thank you for sharing despite the eyeball assault
Sucks being in the timeline where Randall and Waternoose got away with it
YES!
Love it!
Oh hi!!!
What a cutie
Thanks for the shout out!
I feel the horror vibrating from that quoted post!
Woohoo!
Personalization feels like it should easy ‘cos humans are good at messy context.
So why is AI p13n so crap?
AI struggles because human tastes aren’t neat. We cluster weirdly, and small differences matter a lot at the edges.
Popular stuff is easy to recommend.
Matching your weird is impossible.
Realised that just mirrors the way you looked at differentiation from company and consumer viewpoints.
Overall, your point makes sense and seems robust compared with the common wishful thinking about differentiation
Love the time series graphs and clarification
One question I was left with: distinctiveness. Surely I could create a 100% distinctive product almost instantly. What grows over time - isn’t that more recognition in the consumer base?
I might be misunderstanding a technical term.
Queued!
The Hawk Tuah arc feels quintessentially 2024
I loved it. A decadent treat for the eardrums.
Can we dare to hope for some more soon??
SO GOOD
Ooooooh!
I wrote this on this day ten years ago. It has become a necessary ritual to share it again each year and to remember for those who no longer can.
glad I have finally collected all circumstances in a big box. There were loads of the buggers