Tony Ennis's Blog Posts about Group One

over 1 year ago

Interesting semi-veiled assertion that specialization is optimal for the old world, generalization best for the new world. E.g. people adept at the specialist track thrive within the current education system ("They take the questions that have appeared in previous years and then create similar problems that they make the students repeat ad-nauseum").
"Several problems need an interdisciplinary perspective. They are too complex to be solved by an individual. But how do we maintain breadth, diverse experience, interdisciplinary thinking and delayed concentration in a world that demands hyper-specialists"
"Daniel Kahneman probed the judgments of highly trained experts, he often found that experience bred confidence but not skill".
"Specialists do not do well as predictors of financial or political trends"
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almost 3 years ago

almost 3 years ago

Need to read more about Allen, but from this piece I feel like he's my product idol.
"Sex is a driving force for human nature"
"Product management is art, not commerce" - agree.
"I’ve been able to imbue my perspective of the world"
"Grand design" vs design thinking. Grand design - "the new product emerges fully-formed in the mind’s eye before it is commercialized".
"A good product requires a certain degree of ‘dictatorship"
"The primary goal for technology should be helping humankind increase efficiency."
"There is a limit to how much a single app or tool can hold. To avoid an over-bloated app, he recently announced that WeChat is expanding to revolve around different standalone apps." <- very interesting considering WeChat is the canonical super app.
"Quality, not openness, is the greatest good that a platform can deliver" <- hard disagree with his point here. I dislike the "quality" as determined by an algorithm approach - would prefer to see everything and do curation myself.

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almost 3 years ago

Took long notes on this and closed the tab and lost them 😩 - will attempt to re-do.
General theme - very relevant to everything we're thinking about at the minute.
"the individual lifestyle that the creator economy spawns ignores the science of human psychology"
"tools that create new, digitally native formats for small groups of people to create wealth and form strong social bonds"
"We live in the world of my money and your money. Our money isn’t quite here yet"
"Pacaso is a platform that enables co-ownership" <- Groupbuy
"I don’t want to create a podcast on my own but it’d be fun to record a season with a few friends. I don’t want to deal with the tax mess, but it’d be fun to start an investment club with the Jacuzzi crew or collaborate on a merch line with fellow TypeHouse writers"