Hello my friends,

What is happening at Twitter this week is a reminder that newsletters are the future.

In this week’s curation:

• Use “Experience Visions” to innovate.

• The importance of putting ideas into words.

• Why sitting down destroys you.

I’m closing in on my 300-subscriber target for this year. If you enjoyed these notes, please forward them to your closest collaborators.

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— Andy

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Product

• Looking for a way to step beyond incremental thinking? Use an “Experience Vision” to put the customer squarely in the middle of the innovation process.

• An agency founder was surprised to see how many creatives lacked real-world experience when applying for roles at his firm. So he created Briefbox.

• The perfect collaboration doesn’t exi… Unfortunately not a result of AI.

People

• “The best people are self-managed” ↓

• When a boss sends a report an email, the power dynamic there says “I expect this to be answered.”. Understand the power dynamics of e-mail.

• Looking to get the best out of your team? Avoid these 5 traits of poor leadership.

Process

• It’s what you say “no” to that counts. Here are 31 templates you can import into Gmail.

• How do you test whether you really know what you’re talking about? Write about it. The importance of putting ideas into words.

• Hindsight is always 20/20 which is why postmortem is rarely useful. Begin with the end in mind and avoid project failure.

Out of Office

Finally got to sit down to watch this ↓

Last Week’s Numbers

Weekly Subscribers: 289 ➡️

Open Rate: 56% ⬆️