Here's to the crazy ones: lessons learned at Apple.So much value in this article alone, its scary. Avy Faingezicht was an ex Apple employee and he shares his learnings and habits he picked up after working at the company for 6 years. Here are my two favourite quotes from his post.
"Things happen because people make them happen. Companies are made of individuals, and no project succeeds without a driven person pushing the vision forward."Everyone is winging it. Yes, experts too. What we call expertise is nothing but a mix of self-deception, ruthless focus, pattern matching ability, and just enough training data" Read MoreDon't Rush to Simplicity."Expertise in a subject often goes in a bell curve of simple → complex → simple. Can we skip the complexity?"
I feel likes memes make the world go round and this iteration of the midwit bell curve for simplicity slaps different.
Read moreIt's *not* too late to join the creator economy.Creative people used to be a joke.
In high school, I told people I was going to be a musician. They laughed out loud at me. I grew up with odd characters who wrote poetry. They too were laughed at. I had a friend who was a standup comedian. He tried to do it professionally. People at the bank he worked at during the day laughed at his nighttime gig.
Then there are writers. If you told people ten years ago that you wanted to be a writer and maybe publish a book, they’d say “get a real job ya bum.” Not anymore.
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