Mindfulness, Cuppa, Time, Execution
Thursday is upon us and to kick off the morning a good interview by Danielle Newnham with Anne-Laure Le Cunff, previously at Google Digital Health, editor of Maker Mag and founder of Ness Labs, where she focuses on mindful productivity and publishes the weekly newsletter Maker Mind. They “discuss how she got interested in neuroscience, what excites her at the intersection of tech and science, some of her daily habits and advice she’d give her younger self”. Read the full article here.
🌐 Maker Stories
Everyone is talking about the launch of Cuppa, founded by Makers KP and Michael Gill. Below Erik Israni from Bubble speaks with KP, about his maker journey, past projects, and #NoCode. Watch the video here.
🌐 Ideas, Trends
Below, Garry Tan explains, that founders usually fail because they don’t try enough things in the limited time they have. As W. C. Fields said "If at first, you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. It's no use being a damn fool about it."
Garry recommends you “Timebox” your tries to maximize your success. Listen to his advice on finding product market fit in the short video below, or read the article here.
Bram Kanstein just launched The MVP Experiment Canvas on Product Hunt. It’s free to download and comes with instructions. Similar to the Lean Canvas and the Business Model Canvas, it helps you test and validate your MVP. Read more and download here.
🌐 Build, Launch, Monetise
Great blog post by Jordan O’Connor on execution. I really loved the following two quotes:
Execution is “building products, helping others, practicing skills, gaining experience, documenting what you’ve learned. It’s taking risks and risking your time by spending it on things that might work.”
“I can guarantee you won’t regret building those things. You would regret not building.”
As Pieter Levels says, “take action”. Read the full post here.
To finish off the day, a valuable observation by Bill Gurley on marketplaces: A differentiated supply or thinking is not difficult or helpful, aggregating demand is the key to success. I guess GM found this out…
