small thread: thinking about advice one-liners that have stuck with me for a long time. A few of mine are below. What are yours? /1
“Before we think, we need to think about how we’re going to think.” — attributed to Stephen Papert, heard this from a prof at MIT Media Lab when visiting one day /2
“Control your narrative. If you don’t, someone else will.” — from my Neo colleague @anilpod /3
“Design how you want your product to be used before you design how you want your product to be architected.” — paraphrasing Neo colleague @jseiden when he saw me wrecking usability by being too influenced by the database architecture /4
“Every org structure has silos. You can’t escape this, rather you have to choose which silos you can live with” — paraphrasing @lolarobot, my CTO partner at Meetup (she also introduced me to Conway’s Law - you ship your org chart) /5