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Lesson 79: 🐴 Product is the horse
It does the service no harm for the product to be put together or taken apart
Michael Schofield
Mar 20, 2021
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Lesson 78: Good Design Work does not mean Successful Product
You must try to decouple your sense of value as a crafts-person from the entity that buys your wares.
Michael Schofield
Mar 18, 2021
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Lesson 77: The path's never not in front of you.
When you drift off path, oh well, the path's still right there.
Michael Schofield
Mar 17, 2021
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July 2020
Letter 76: Shirking routine
How much of what you do routinely matters?
Michael Schofield
Jul 6, 2020
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March 2020
This is not the worst-case scenario.
The lesson then is that this is not the worst. You can think. You can do. You are not without agency here.
Michael Schofield
Mar 16, 2020
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January 2020
Practice really hearing
Listen now | Getting inside of our users' heads provides context and evidence for the choices we make about what's actually in our control: the service…
Michael Schofield
Jan 20, 2020
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December 2019
Resolve to know what you control
The end of year reckoning is often a punch to the gut, but it shouldn't be.
Michael Schofield
Dec 30, 2019
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Scipio's Villa and the Product Over Time
Listen now (6 min) | I am resting at the country-house which once belonged to Scipio Africanus himself; and I write to you after doing reverence to his…
Michael Schofield
Dec 9, 2019
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The Beginning of the End-milestone
We make up deadlines, sure; we make up year ends, too.
Michael Schofield
Dec 1, 2019
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October 2019
It's Halloween 🦇 The Veil is Thin
Listen now (2 min) | Back in April I introduced Venerating the Grave UX (medium), which is about regularly “ritualizing” negative feedback. The idea is…
Michael Schofield
Oct 31, 2019
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Keep your chin up. Don't lose your shit.
"Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole." - Our boy, Marcus.
Michael Schofield
Oct 30, 2019
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The Problem with Goal-Setting is The Goal
Goal-setting should be constrained to factors in your control: that is, pursue goals that best prepare that arrow’s trajectory.
Michael Schofield
Oct 28, 2019
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