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[Weekly Retro] How to take care of early ideas?

#60 - Aug.2024

Happy Friday!

💡 Here is a quick idea before you head off to the weekend:

Ideas are like seeds. If we don’t care for them, they die. Caring means:

  • Avoid too many early constraints that prevent them from fully developing their potential.
  • Turn them into something concrete. Write them down, socialize them, and build an experiment. Most ideas die in the world of abstraction.
  • Look for data. Think about what is the easiest and faster way to test them.

Sure, many ideas won't fly. But we often give up too early on high-potential ideas without validating them first.

🅧 Tip of the week

✉️ Post from this week

This week I wrote about the key elements of creativity: our imagination to generate ideas, our curiosity to iterate, and the courage to make decisions.

Imagination, curiosity, and courage
#118 - Knowledge bites on tech innovation, design, and creativity. Three elements of creativity: imagination, curiosity, and courage.

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👨🏻‍💻 Interesting links I found during this week:

How Close is AI to Replacing Instructional Designers?
The Results Part 3: Creating a Course Outline
How to do user research effectively as a busy product manager
A comprehensive guide on how to identify customers for research, ask right questions, and communicate insights
Is AI eating all the energy? Part 1/2 / GioCities
actually the energy costs of AI seem pretty reasonable and they shouldn’t be a problem

🖋️ Quote of the week:

“The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.” – Steve Jobs