Co-Founder and CEO at Origin Health. On a mission to democratize quality prenatal care for every expecting mother across the world.
Jun 10, 2019 • 38 tweets • 5 min read
#4 - On Cities, Planning, and Order Without Design 🦸♂️
Alain Bertaud, author of 'Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities' chats with @EconTalker on the emergent factors that affect the growth of cities.
Key takeaways from the interview (thread) 👇
overcast.fm/+JD0UwTk1/ An urban planner thinks in terms of norms; an economist in terms of needs.
Jun 6, 2019 • 38 tweets • 5 min read
"Talk to users" is a key thing for startups (and probably applicable to other areas as well). Lots of gems from @eshear lecture on 'How to run a user interview'.
Thread:
1/ You need the answer to the question: who is my user and where am I going to find them?
Jun 5, 2019 • 80 tweets • 8 min read
While evaluating startup ideas, I find myself re-reading @paulg essays.
Thread:
1/ Most really good startup ideas look like bad ideas at first, and many of those look bad specifically because some change in the world just switched them from bad to good.
Jun 4, 2019 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
@kocienda revealed in great details how truly breakthrough innovations are never about lone geniuses or single Eureka! moments. IMO, companies should credit its people more for all their great work. amazon.com/Creative-Selec…
Some notes from the book: 1/ We never waited around for brilliant flashes of insight that might solve problems in one swoop, and we had few actual Eureka! moments.
