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Product/ Market Strategy

The hardest questions in business are sometimes the most simple: What do you actually do? What problem do you solve? Why should we choose you? Despite fifteen years helping founders navigate these waters, it has still taken some time to work out the answers about my own work. But I

AI

3 Priorities for AI Products

Three rules for building AI products.

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Not just pivots: Unfair Vantage

More often than not, founders set off in one direction -- but discover real opportunity through the new vantage they gain.

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New ideas for AI interface/ conventions

I've written before about why I think chat is a poor experience for AI products. This is my post where I'm going to assemble ideas, fragments, examples for other forms AI interactions might take.

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Chat is the wrong convention to make great AI products

In most cases, chat is not the best interface for AI experiences.

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Reviewing the product positioning of YC batch W24

Thoughts on product positioning by the YC2024 batch.

Vision Pro

Vision Pro + Family: Attention/ intention

I think all parents would say they want to be really present with their children. Sometimes I try to imagine it’s the last day of my life and I’ve been allowed to travel back to this moment with my 5 year old and 2 year old. When it

The human interface of Vision Pro: Personas and EyeSight

There's something horrible about the uncertainty of if someone can see you or you can see them. Two way eye contact is something we absolutely take for granted. It's a connection that is about more than just paying attention, it's about sharing presence with

Vision Pro-fessional: day one at work

Work can be a very personal thing – we all work at our best in different ways, in different shaped teams, increasingly in different places. For me, I've spent nearly a dozen years working mostly where I want, with who I want, how I want. My most meaningful work

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A Provisional view of Vision Pro

In a recent Beyond Work Hackathon, the prize for the winning team was an Apple Vision Pro. This is the best possible way to get access to a Vision Pro. While I think the price is the least interesting thing about the device (it will become increasingly irrelevant over time)

Quest vs Apple Vision will be won by trajectory

Today, Mark Zuckerberg recorded a video talking about how Quest 3 is not just better value, but a better product. What he means is: Meta believes price point, weight, full 3D experiences will be paramount to winning the VR market. These are factors informed by their historic "metaverse"

15 years -- what is working?

A short note on 15 years of working.

HouseHeld: designing features

The initial idea was quite complex and then brutally simple, as I wanted to ensure it was scope that would actually get DONE. Tasks This led to the early versions of four season cards with three tasks on each. The project was more or less entirely task-based, but trying desperately

Prototyping my first product

This post follows up part 1 about what HouseHeld is and why I've been working on it. You might want to start there. Fortunately, I’ve spent the last decade working directly with some wildly talented founders and investors. I read the Lean Startup the year it came

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Human computing

What's the relationship between Vision Pro and LLM text interfaces?

What's Apple's Vision for the rest of us?

What's the Vision for the rest of us?

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HouseHeld - the story so far

What is HouseHeld

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The only successful consumer app is Entertainment

About the time I realised there's no such thing as a successful consumer subscription app outside of "entertainment".

products

Against our own interests

What makes people adopt something new?

How Minds Change

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My product journey

Hello, For over a decade, I've worked closely with great founders and their teams around a simple premise: what is this business really about? During that time, a continuous curiosity has driven me toward all sorts of challenges: from agencies to writing, into startups, running my own business,

writing

The power of Rewriting

How might adapting stories help you notice your writing defaults and cliches?

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How analogue do we need to go to escape the digital dirge?

Is there a better way to manifest our favourite music, movies, games and books in our life?

So far with... Arc browser

I started using Arc before Christmas as my default browser. Here's what I've been thinking about it: Replacing chrome with features I remember at the launch of Google Chrome, the whole principle was to build a bridge for Google content into the actual "chrome"

Dynamic Island? Watch it.

Apple Watch already solved the Dynamic Island's purpose.