Broken email; Zoom is good; Identifying problems
Milk, No Sugar #275
💡Think
“Shoot bullets before cannonballs”.
I hear this recently and it really stuck. It’s a great technique to use when you’re trying out something new, whether it’s a new product idea or a new hobby.
Breaking the task down into the smallest possible deliverable and testing that out is the only way you can ensure that your experiment doesn’t blow the budget whilst still offering value and scratching the itch.
The time to load, aim, and shoot the cannon first far outweighs the rapid testing that our bullet can provide. Sure, a weapon analogy isn’t what we all signed up for, but it works nonetheless.
📷 Look
📖 Read
❶ Email broke the office
How many unread personal emails do you have? How about professional? I’d be very surprised if either of those are 0. We’re bombarded at every corner, and the constant firefighting just won’t stop. So what can we do as employees and friends to prevent overwhelm for everyone else? This article jumps in.
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❷ Zoom is good, actually
Some of the world is rapidly returning to whatever sugar-coated version of normal we all thought we had before the before. For a lot of people though (I’m almost inclined to join), this isn’t that much of an exciting prospect. For socially anxious folk, the thought of being forced back into regular mass-social events is understandably a concern, and having Zoom as your ol’ buddy ol’ pal might not actually be so bad.
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❸ Is your team solving problems, or just identifying them?
Oh, this one stings. It’s so easy for us to find holes in everything we do, but how often do we actually come up with a solution to them? It kind of links back to the fixed / growth mindset I mentioned a few weeks back, but there are actually some tangible steps you can take to foster this kind of culture within your team.
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Bonus round
It’s our major annual conference this week and I’ll be co-hosting on a stage on both days. I’ll be introing speakers from NASA, Headspace, Github to name a few. Tickets are free if you’d like to hurl abuse
Excellent interactive website taking us through what it means to be living inside a “music bubble” based on where you live
Last month I gave a talk on the business impact of design systems. Here it is if you’ve got 18 minutes to spare
🎧 Listen
Is this app accessible?
The answer is probably not. This podcast takes a refreshingly honest look at product development to identify just how inaccessible most products are, and what we can do as makers to ensure that the work we’re producing can be used by as many people as possible.
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Have a great week,
Luis Ouriach
@disco_lu