• https://stripe.com/en-dk/guides/atlas/optimize-your-customer-sign-up-and-sign-in-experience

    Guidance on building a great sign up flow that converts, based on 100M Sign-Up data from Clerk.

    Biggest wins:

    1. Use Sign-Up with Google
    2. Defer requirements until strictly necessary

    Also:

    • Measure performance
    • Optimize for Speed, methods by how fast they are
      • Social sign-in (e.g. Google)
      • SAML single sign-on (this is primarily used by employees of large enterprises)
      • Passwords
      • Email one-time password (six-digit code)
      • SMS one-time password
      • Email magic links
    • Keep sessions as long as possible
  • https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/you-have-18-months

    Instead of being concerned about AI becoming smarter than us by advancement of AI, we should be concerned of it becoming smarter than us by us becoming dumber.

    The author argues that writing = thinking, but

    Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate

    and

    Thinking benefits from a similar principle of “time under tension.” It is the ability to sit patiently with a group of barely connected or disconnected ideas that allows a thinker to braid them together into something that is combinatorially new

    Outsourcing thinking to LLMs obviously decreases our ability to do actual thinking

    outsourcing the entire writing process to LLMs” deprives scientists of the important work of understanding what they’ve discovered and why it matters.

    So what should people learn do be well-equipped for the future?

    While I don’t know what field any particular student should major in, I do feel strongly about what skill they should value: It’s the very same skill that I see in decline. It’s the patience to read long and complex texts; to hold conflicting ideas in our heads and enjoy their dissonance; to engage in hand-to-hand combat at the sentence level within a piece of writing

  • https://commoncog.com/focus-saying-no-to-good-ideas/

  • https://tahahussain.substack.com/p/how-to-push-back-on-bad-ideas-without

    • Instead of saying no, offer alternatives and tradeoffs

      Because executives don’t respond to resistance.

      They respond to tradeoffs.

      Show them the cost. Let them make the call.

      A “no” without a solution is a complaint.

      A “no” with a solution is leadership.

  • https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/problem-selection

    Most of the time, I am only loosely connected with my deeper values and so can’t assign things their proper place. I lose myself in whatever comes my way.

    what is new often distracts us from what we actually want to get done (reading and writing this is something i didn’t really want to focus on this morning, by the way)

    Asking what problem I should be working on now does two things. First, it lifts my eyes from the mess of the present, so I can orient myself. But second, it also points back down at the present, because of that now at the end of the sentence. This now reminds me that what I’m looking for is not the truth about my soul; I’m just looking for the next iteration of the experiment that is my life.

  • https://grahamhelton.com/notes/role_guidelines

    Track data for important things. When starting a project what data can you collect? How can you show your impact?

    Most of being a good employee is doing what you said you’re going to do. If you can’t do something you said you’re going to, say so.

    Write SOPs. Doesn’t matter what it is. If you found it hard or confusing to do something like submit an expense report, write down how to do it and share it.