Finn Schubert

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What do you believe happens to ideas?

A picture is worth a thousand words...

Or do ideas work like this?

An umbrella called "mental blocks"...

the trust thermocline

It’s the idea that for some products, irreversible consumer trust damage can happen far in advance of its impact.

Simple, Lovable, Complete

What would a “simple, lovable, complete” report look like?

administrative debt

In software engineering, technical debt is when you work quickly and take shortcuts in coding that prioritize completing the work sooner over long-term stability and consistency of the code. Essentially, you borrow time and resources from the future (to fix problems arising from these shortcuts) in order to have

Be ruthless in discerning what works for you

Now is a time to get deeper in our understanding of what is easeful for us. Be ruthless in discerning what works for you. Separate that which is uncomfortable because it is on your growth edge from that which is not yours to do. Perhaps the ultimate "productivity hack&

Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt

A good strategy defines a critical challenge. What is more, it builds a bridge between that challenge and action, between desire and immediate objectives that lie within grasp. -- from Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt There's so much I didn't understand about strategy before I

Is my blue your blue?

Who knew an Ikea rug would spark such an existential crisis? Ours is a color-block rug, with stripes loud enough for a child’s room, but sophisticated enough for the living room. (We should know — we’ve had the rug in both places. Right now, it’s in the

Take Emotion Seriously

When designing anything, even–especially–systems that feel like they are dry and neutral, we need to take emotion seriously. What does that look like?

a data system is a hypothesis about the world

A file system is an expression of how you see the world. Which things are like other things? Which things are different? Which categories are important? Which are unimportant? Organizations have trouble creating a file system that works for everyone, because everyone sees the world differently. And because they think