The returns a company generates by hiring top (but expensive) talent is several folds higher as compared to the returns generated by the money saved by hiring mediocre (but cheaper) talent.
If an opportunity has few obvious downsides, it is almost certainly NOT a great opportunity. All great opportunities have very big and very obvious downsides
1. You don’t know anything.
2. No one else knows anything either.
3. It will never be the right time
4. The people you look up to are not special.
5. No one on earth thinks about you as much you think they do.
6. No one cares what you do, they care what you can do for them.
Dear product companies,
If your salesperson calls, gets me on the hook, and then responds to a question about pricing with "I'm not allowed to discuss pricing" then they've told me everything I need to know about working with you.
Sincerely,
Everyone
Saying it loud for the folks in the back.
"Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know."
"Looks cool" isn't a good reason to deviate.
#JakobsLaw#UX
Zoom may have developed an unexpected brand problem amidst all of their pandemic success.
All of the kids associate Zoom with school, but they choose @discord in their personal lives.
My 12yo was confused as to why everyone doesn’t use @discord & is happy to be “done with Zoom”