Ásgeir Vísir

Co-founder & CPO at @Smitten_HQ, interested in human behavior, communication, and other weird 💩

[Ásgeir Vísir @asgeirvisir]

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[Ásgeir Vísir @asgeirvisir]

Post-launch, data-driven product development is beautifully organic. I think it is why MVP as a concept exists because, with user data, you can go infinitely deep with a relatively simple idea, chasing the path of least resistance.

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You either give up on your entrepreneurial dreams or you flush the startup game from your system to discover your ravenous hunger for success.

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Storytelling is one of the most important skills people can learn IMO. Whether you intend to bring the world together, sell your product, or your vision, it can't be done without telling a compelling story!

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FOMO and jealousy are two powerful and highly overwhelming feelings that (sometimes) lead to irrational decision-making. Both of these can be tactically planted in people to encourage desirable behavior

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@MLafsson @sveppalicious Hahaha. Var lengur að fatta þetta en ég vil viðurkenna

[Ásgeir Vísir @asgeirvisir]

Becoming world-class in anything is basically recognizing patterns using your gut feeling and then acting according to the habbits you have forged over 10.000 hrs…

Chess, football, design, coding, running a business… same shit, different patterns 🔄

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A short and clear message, written in simple language, is always more effective than trying to sound smart with big words that nobody understands! #ux #copy

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My friends were mulling over who of them could do my job, if I weren’t able to. They all agreed one of them could open “the program” at least. Pretty sure my friends have no clue what I actually do all day (except opening the program)! 🤣

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Personal weird quirks and odd characteristics are the perfect ingredients for the secret sauce to success 🤷‍♂️ #stayweird

[Ásgeir Vísir @asgeirvisir]

Everything is an experience.

Everyone is an interface.

[Ásgeir Vísir @asgeirvisir]

There is a positive correlation between how many kids I have and how many minutes I spend on the 🚽

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What are the human body’s worst design flaws?

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@justinkan Is that a clever way of saying you can’t argue with feelings?

[Ásgeir Vísir @asgeirvisir]

Maybe I’m just weird. I believe some songs could become entire books, if we’d let our imagination flow 😅

[Ásgeir Vísir @asgeirvisir]

Do you ever experience, when listening to certain songs, that your mind takes you to a place you’ve never been to in real life? f.ex. Golden Brown - The Stranglers, takes me to an old irish alehouse in the 1800’s. Across the street is a large wooden ship docked in a harbour.

[Ásgeir Vísir @asgeirvisir]

It’s very late at night, close to dawn even, and you know the stillness of the night is about to be disrupted. The alehouse is half built into a steep hill, meant to serve fishermen and other travelers beer, stew and a bed for the night…

[Ásgeir Vísir @asgeirvisir]

Benefits of hiring for a cultural fit: happier employees, good morale, less conflicts, core value alignment, supercharged enthusiasm and etc. Teams who have cultural fit won’t go unnoticed, they are like pregnant, glowing moms, full of life regardless of how hard things are! 🤓

[Ásgeir Vísir @asgeirvisir]

I have multiple drives to become succesful but wanting my kids to be proud of their dad is very close to the top of the list. Not sure if it’s due to my relationship with my own dad was fucked or something else 🤷‍♂️ #tbh