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Pressuring a customer to ensure that they sign your agreement before…

[The founders of AnswerLab] both worked at multiple companies before starting AnswerLab and saw that the demands of outside investors to hit quarterly numbers can really impact the relationship companies have with their clients. Pressuring a customer to ensure that they sign your agreement before the end of the quarter does not create a trusted advisor relationship.

– AnswerLab founder Dan Clifford (cited from 37signals interview)

“Pressuring a customer…”

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Pressuring a customer to ensure that they sign your agreement before…

[The founders of AnswerLab] both worked at multiple companies before starting AnswerLab and saw that the demands of outside investors to hit quarterly numbers can really impact the relationship companies have with their clients. Pressuring a customer to ensure that they sign your agreement before the end of the quarter does not create a trusted advisor relationship.

– AnswerLab founder Dan Clifford (cited from 37signals interview)

"If you spend time putting together…"

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Rather than trying to invent a “make it big” idea, having good instincts, foresight and putting together a team that can execute has much greater value. If you spend time putting together a group of people that can actually deliver the goods, an idea becomes nothing more than a showcase for your talents. With the ability to execute, ideas become distilled down to their essence. This makes way for knowledge and communication.

– Aviv Hadar @ Think Brilliant

5 Lessons from a Viral Video

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Adam Sadowsky, the guy behind the machine in OK Go‘s latest viral video This Too Shall Pass shared the following insights about lessons learned during its creation:
  • small stuff stinks…but it’s essential
  • planning is important…so is flexibility
  • put reliable stuff last
  • life can be messy
  • this too shall pass

I think these lessons are applicable to software development.

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Steve Jobs Quote: To design something really well, you have to…

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“Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works. The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don’t take the time to do that.

Creativity is just connecting things inspiring you to be here now. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.

Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”

– Steve Jobs,Wired interview (1993)