There are four kinds of product ideation that can be thought of along two axis, organic vs inorganic and bottom-up vs top-down.

Given a corpus of language, the frequency of a word (how many times it shows up in the corpus) is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table of words.

A mission should be boiled down to a single aspirational statement that encompasses what the team actually does that’s valuable (not necessarily what leadership says they do), metrics describe the observable effects as the team succeeds in the mission.

The internet as a system contains values such as freedom and privacy that are deeply embedded in the implementation and it’s evolution.

Combating misinformation and disinformation campaigns using humor. Taiwanese hacker and Digital Minister Audrey Tang talks about how, for example, hours after a post containing misinformation is detected, Audrey’s team will publish a joke that contains the real information in it.

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Physician that lost his surgical license (due to someone dying during an operation) who went on to perform over 4,000 lobotomies.

An animated film from Studio Ghibli about Jiro Horikoshi, the engineer that designed the famous Japanese ‘Zero’ fighter plane.

Using a standing desk improves job performance, work engagement, anxiety, and quality of life.

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In Hollywood set design, you need to optimize in a way that optimizes for the most impact on screen–money spent off screen is effectively useless to the end result, the film.

Cubic feet per square meter is a measurement of how much air breathability and air resistance a fabric has.

The point in which the lineage of any two people currently alive can be traced to the same common ancestor.

The most famous personal injury attorneys from New York due to non-stop advertising, Cellino & Barnes created a breakthrough business that was very successful (each partner was making $10MM per year at one point).

The Nova SDS011 sensor is an inexpensive ($30) air quality sensor that uses laser scattering to detect particles at 2.

Air quality index is calculated from the value of a pollutant concentration (pm2.

The price of solar panels drops 20% for every time the quantity shipped doubles.

The user’s evaluation of the quality of a product is not separate from the aesthetics.

The idea that, as a result of mass surveillance, data collection and social media are leading to behavioral changes.

If everything is public or under surveillance, actions could have negative externalities.

Using one’s natural tendency to procrastinate in a way that’s productive.

Neglected UX is when parts of the user experience are not quite broken, but subtly incongruous.

Famed animated film studio that created such popular films as Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, and much more.

A book about business strategy by Hamilton Helmer which outlines seven ‘powers’ that are the cause of successful companies.