[Weekly Retro] Tech adoption speed
#194 - Nov.2024
Happy Friday!
💡 Here is a quick idea before you head off to the weekend:
Technology is being adopted faster than ever before.
These are different products and how long it took to reach 100M monthly users (source: Everys):
- Google Translate: 78 months
- Uber: 70 months
- Telegram: 61 months
- Spotify: 55 months
- Pinterest: 41 months
- Instagram: 30 months
- TikTok: 9 months
- ChatGPT: 2 months
This is an opportunity for businesses to change to reinvent themselves continuously.
The companies that build strong customers bonds and trust will win in the long run.
🧪 Tools I'm experimenting with
A new interface for working with ChatGPT on writing and coding projects that go beyond simple chat. Canvas opens in a separate window, allowing you and ChatGPT to collaborate on a project
✉️ Post from this week
This week I wrote an article sharing a strategic guide to adopting emerging technology using experimentation as a tool:
César Rodríguez
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🧠 Mental model I learned
Narrative Instinct
Human beings have been appropriately called “the storytelling animal” because of our instinct to construct and seek meaning in narrative. It’s likely that long before we developed the ability to write or to create objects, we were telling stories and thinking in stories. Nearly all social organizations, from religious institutions to corporations to nation-states, run on constructions of the narrative instinct. (source: fs.blog)
👨🏻💻 Interesting links
Highways England Strategic Design Panel
🖋️ Quote of the week
“Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.” – Anthony de Mello.
