Insights

Don't try to predict the problems of tomorrow, solve today's problems first.

Keep your code as simple as possible. Complexity increases exponentially with each piece of code added.

Focus on the right customers. Each time you say yes to a feature, you're adopting a child.

Ask people what they don't want. If you could remove one feature, what would it be?

Make opinionated software. Apple product vs others.

Obsess with customer not your competition.

Under-do vs out-do

Endless preference screens

Customer experience has overtaken price and product as the key brand differentiator

Hick's law: the paradox of choices. Cognitive load

Humans are strange, we say we want as much options as possible. When we get them we get confused and can't take a decision.

Flexible vs convenience & time

Keep it simple

Creativity at cost of usability

Deliberate design flaws

Little details matter

Everything we do, can be done with something lesser

Design is everywhere, from the dress you're wearing to the smartphone you're holding. it's design.

Design is intelligence made visible

The faster you can ship things, the sooner you can stop with the assumptions

Decide quick and execute. To make a business, you need to multiply the two

Embrace changes, stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right

If your competitors change faster than you, you're at a huge disadvantage.

All the cash, all the marketing, all the people in the world can't buy the agility you get from being small.

Less hierarchy, Better alignment, Magic of work done.

Law of Productivity

Meetings are toxic, do better with less

Less noise at work, more focus

28,000 hours of distracted work is less than 8,000 hours of deep work

Fewer goals, more focus

Eliminate the unnecessary ruthlessly

Smaller the teams, better it functions

Why it is OK to have scarce resources

This series by Manoj talks of better and efficient work practices

If Henry Ford had tried addressing the demand for faster horses, where would the automobile industry be today?

More on how quality is much more than quantity

When we started in 2012, we planned to build a B2C business. B2C consumer internet businesses were very popular during 2012 and we felt consumers really wanted the product we were building

Manoj Agarwal, co-founder, Xoxoday, shares some of his learnings over the years on this hoopla around these words B2B, B2C, C2C It is all Human to Human