⚡️ Weekend Inspiration #9

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The Corrosive Nature of Over-Introducers

In modern society we’re all over-worked and over-loaded with information and tasks and to-dos and obligations. Nowhere is this more apparent than working in a startup where you are definitionally under-resourced and trying to make big accomplishments in compressed periods of time.
That’s why focus is critical. Saying “no” often to people who want to divert you from your mission becomes obligatory if you want to make progress. Modern-society is also littered with over-networkers and over-introducers and professional conference attendees. These people are like the friend in college who always tempted you by telling you about the latest party when you were at the library studying.

By Mark Suster • Photo by Tim Gouw

The One Metric Great Companies Know Leads to Success

Data’s supposed to give you a leg up. To help you spot trends, back up ideas, and define actions to improve.
But when there’s so much to look at, you sometimes end up not knowing what to look at. It’s the classic paradox of choice. When there’s too many options you don’t know what to do.
To make things simple, I wondered if there was one metric that could apply to every part of our company.
Unlike charts and graphs, this ideal metric would be so clear you could immediately tell how you’re doing by looking at a single number.
We defined this magic metric as…

By Mikael Cho • Photo by Volkan Olmez

The weight of design

We’re designing experiences over and over, spending time over every little details to make everything perfect. Sweating every aspects of what we do to constantly raise the bar. At which point are we designing design itself ?
When good design becomes not only expected but something that every user is entitled to. When beautiful, smart seamless and invisible is the objective and when we’ve done everything but yet it still doesn’t seem like it’s enough, we get to measure the weight of design; How important it is among all the factors impacting a project longevity and relevance such as the most scary of them all: timeliness.

By Sebastien Gabriel • Photo by Danielle MacInnes

To See

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To Try

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By Ian Barnard • Photo by Paul Gilmore

Working with Texture — Making & Adding it to your Type, an instructional video from the talented Ian Barnard.

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