Tag: opinion
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Success comes from simplifying validated products
People want products with less features. People want simpler features.
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Personal Accountability? Make it impersonal.
Do you want to encourage a culture of personal accountability in your team or company? Start by making it impersonal. Good accountability, in general, involves having tools and processes in place to generate business metrics. It is impossible to implement accountability without metrics. Therefore, it is necessary to have parameters, or criteria, by which the…
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Greed Based Pricing
Thirty years ago in 1994 I was entering university to get my Business degree. One very interesting theory that I learned right from the beginning was Michael Porter’s cost-based competitive advantage. Porter points out that if your company does a great job of keeping its operational costs low, it could practice lower prices than its…
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MVP
The Minimum Viable Product, of course. The least you think your product needs to be understood and convert some users. Somebody sent me this image this morning and asked my opinion about it. I don’t get the sad and neutral face to the skateboard, the kick scooter and the bike. Riding any of them can…
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Big waves of technical evolution
Someone asked me how Bitcoin stands next to other technological marvels of our recent history. In my view, these are the “big waves” of technological evolution that change everything on their path.
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The most honest and precise definition of 21st century Brazil you can find on the Internet
This is Roberto Mangabeira Unger. Português “O Brasil é uma das sociedades mais desiguais na história da humanidade. Mas nós somos agora, sobretudo, medíocres. O aparato produtivo está desqualificado e os brasileiros estão sem equipamento cognitivo, sem as competências necessárias para participar da economia do conhecimento. Então, o país, há vários governos, é comandado por…
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35a Bienal de São Paulo
Péssima. A pior que já visitei desde o começo do século, quando tomei gosto pelo evento e passei a prestigiá-lo em todas as edições. Tudo muito feio e largado. Uma pobreza estética sem fim. Como esta folha de papel em branco pendurada na parede. A foto de capa sou eu numa das instalações.
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You are not a magician, you are an entertainer
People are very creative now when describing themselves in the ‘About’ section of their LinkedIn profile pages. Are we really capable of describing ourselves accurately? How good are we in the task of evaluating ourselves and describing difficult aspects of us like ‘competencies’? No, not a magician. Maybe you are in the business of making…