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People who are driven to excel have this unconscious propensity to underinvest in their families and overinvest in their careers—even though intimate and loving relationships with their families are the most powerful and enduring source of happiness.Clayton M. Christensen

The future is drafted by people doing work they don’t have to do. You need to be one of those people—and hire them, too. There is too much wondering and talking, and too little doing. So don’t talk: do. Care indiscriminately. If you’re willing to actually do the work, you’ll have more influence than those…

When the choice is to go with gut instinct or conduct research, they often choose gut instinct. Conducting research takes time and costs money and resources. Gut instinct is immediate and has no associated costs.Jared Spool

That’s in part because managing up is a rather amorphous category, encompassing everything from developing rapport and trust, decision-making, communication style, conflict management and goal-setting with higher-ups.First Round Review

It is noteworthy to emphasise the long-term application of these changes, in which such tools can give way to algorithms, using AI, complex automation, Big Data, rightfully distributing the creative power amongst different disciplines other than designers.Cesar Barizon

And just as consumers shift to new mindsets, so too does industry. Over the past 20 years, nearly every industry has hired, restructured, and re-oriented itself around mobile workflows, products, or business lines. This transformation is as significant as any hardware or software innovation — and, in turn, creates the business case for subsequent innovations.Matthew…

Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.Martha Graham

Specifically, modern AI is better understood as AT — “Artificial Time” that can be prosthetically attached to human minds. And highly capable computing systems are best understood as existing in superhistory rather than embodying superintelligence.Venkatesh Rao

Will business and engineering programs continue to expand their curriculum to include 4D design thinking? If so, the activities in which UX teams engage today may come to be shared by folks in other parts of the organization—a trend we’re already beginning to see.The Future of UX Design

But why follow the Mongol horde deep down the rabbit hole? Why not research Willard’s sooty boubou, or any of the other theoretically interesting subjects Wikipedia’s “random article” button tosses my way? Why does curiosity beckon us this way, and not that?Zach St. George