What happened is scientists discovered chlorofluorocarbons were bad for the ozone, countries believed them, the Montreal Protocol was signed, and CFC use fell by 99.7%, leading to the stabilization of the ozone layer, perhaps the greatest example of global cooperation in history.
Supported @NicoRosberg when he went up against @LewisHamilton. Supported Vettel thereafter. Was rooting for @Max33Verstappen all along until the very end just to break this hegemony. Walking away a Hamilton fan for life now! The grace, the class, the champion.
The date was '05 and the question was "should we buy YouTube for $15M?"
The answer at the time—many variations of which to be heard in planning meetings around the world ever since—was "no, we have their features mocked up and we're just short 1 engineer to kick their butt"
I was once invited to speak at McKinsey. I started by asking, “how many of you have ever started or run your own business?” No one put their hands up. I then announced the name of my presention, “Anything is easy when you don’t have to do it”.
I’ve not been invited back.
This is hilarious. A Norwegian TV programme pitted some professional stock-pickers against an astrologist, some beauty bloggers and - i kid you not - cows shitting in a field. (short thread).
As we end the year, we look back at an eventful 2019 - we spoke to the product community about the power of nudging, about behavior science in digital apps, and launched our nudge-driven user-drop off management platform.
Here is how the year looked for us [A THREAD] 👀👇
Nudging plays on our psychological biases and preferences - thus helping products and businesses to incentivize a desired action for a consumer.
@jonathansenin explores how, on this piece: https://t.co/8iBqnspBla
Product ops plays a crucial role in your product team. In our latest ebook, we asked product leaders like @VarunRamamurthy of @hansel_io to share how their teams benefit from the function. https://t.co/PFpdkn64q4
Engineers are leveraged creatives who generate repeatable solutions to practical problems.
Engineering automation increases leverage, productivity, and the scope of problems that engineers can tackle.
Until we become Gods, society has unlimited demand for creative engineers.
Lately I’ve come across a few entrepreneurs who confessed they might be depressed.
Building mental immunity can help deal with depression https://t.co/VU7mHh0bo7
Please share the info with anyone who you might think may be depressed.
But if you think of WeWork as a massive transfer of wealth from Saudi Arabia to an Israeli entrepreneur via an ethnic-Korean Japanese visionary it's really a heart-warming story of cross-cultural trade worthy of the Model UN
Innovation isn’t just about running experiments.
It’s about thinking like a scientist: develop hypotheses, test them systematically, pivot as relevant, and don’t let early feedback lure you toward incremental improvements over breakthroughs.
@emollick: https://t.co/2aVuj1L3jb