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Manansh Shukla

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  • Think-Week-As-A-Service Long periods of uninterrupted time to think deeply are precious. When you're ready to disappear from the world to make progress on your big idea, simply choose your dates and we'll handle the rest. Your abode will be stacked with your favorite essentials, but no distractions. Make months of progress in a single week with TWAAS.
    Idea Portfolio – The Rabbit Hole
  • Confidant By utilizing GPT3, you can now have your own, trusted confidant - a resource where you can share personal questions, struggles, and ideas in total secrecy and safety. Simply text +1 (xxx) xxx-xxxx or download the app to get started.
    Idea Portfolio – The Rabbit Hole
  • Most Important Question (MIQ) Josh Waitzkin has a journaling practice where he asks himself what his MIQ is just before he goes to bed. In this app, you journal what your MIQ is and have the option to share it in case you want help with it. If not, let your subconscious work on it during the night and keep track of your MIQs over time
    Idea Portfolio – The Rabbit Hole
  • Proper posture, a lot of chewing of hard foods, and some mewing will help improve your breathing
    Breath by James Nestor – The Rabbit Hole
  • Counterintuitively, You want to increase the carbon dioxide in your blood. Increase the time for exhalation, rest, inhalation – it is no wonder or surprise that slowing down your breathing and heart rate can help you live longer. The ideal is 5.5 inhales and exhales per minute
    Breath by James Nestor – The Rabbit Hole
  • People breathe too much, breathe less and as lightly as possible
    Breath by James Nestor – The Rabbit Hole
  • With the current trend around democratizing research, more and more stakeholders are being invited into or conducting interviews on their own. But reinforcing the idea that “anyone can interview” doesn’t make the ultimate goal of “anyone can conduct credible, meaningful, or valuable interviews” easier to reach. You have to dig deeper and educate your team on proper interview behaviors.
    Handbook 1 Conducting Effective Interviews
  • Qualities of Fruitful Research Questions Valuable to your stakeholders Aligned and agreed upon with your stakeholders Meaningful to your participants Clear description or understanding of who the ideal participant is Sustainable for you to study (over time) Specific but not answered with a yes/no, a single statistic, or a short response Actionable because the post-study learning is designed to be used Addressable within your constraints Gives guidance and boundaries when collecting, analyzing, and reporting data Focused on a product-related problem or a prediction about the product
    Handbook 2 – Recognizing Fruitful Questions – Topic 1 Defining fruitful research questions
  • A fruitful research question is valuable to your stakeholders, meaningful to your participants, and sustainable for you to study.
    Handbook 2 – Recognizing Fruitful Questions – Topic 1 Defining fruitful research questions
  • Practice noticing problems, things that seem inefficient, and major technological shifts. Work on projects you find interesting. Go out of your way to hang around smart, interesting people. At some point, ideas will emerge.
    Startup Playbook
  • What if you don’t have an idea but want to start a startup? Maybe you shouldn’t. It’s so much better if the idea comes first and the startup is the way to get the idea out into the world.
    Startup Playbook
  • The faster you can develop self-belief and not get dragged down too much by haters, the better off you’ll be. No matter how successful you are, the haters will never go away.
    Startup Playbook
  • The best ideas sound bad but are in fact good. So you don’t need to be too secretive with your idea—if it’s actually a good idea, it likely won’t sound like it’s worth stealing
    Startup Playbook
  • One important counterintuitive reason for this is that it’s easier to do something new and hard than something derivative and easy. People will want to help you and join you if it’s the former; they will not if it’s the latter.
    Startup Playbook
  • We greatly prefer something new to something derivative. Most really big companies start with something fundamentally new (one acceptable definition of new is 10x better.)
    Startup Playbook
  • We like it when major technological shifts are just starting that most people haven’t realized yet—big companies are bad at addressing those. And somewhat counterintuitively, the best answer is going after a large part of a small market.
    Startup Playbook
  • We also ask how the company will one day be a monopoly. There are a lot of different terms for this, but we use Peter Thiel’s. Obviously, we don’t want your company to behave in an unethical way against competitors. Instead, we’re looking for businesses that get more powerful with scale and that are difficult to copy
    Startup Playbook
  • For most biotech and hard tech companies, the way to test an idea is to first talk to potential customers and then figure out the smallest subset of the technology you can build first.
    Startup Playbook
  • we especially try to figure out if users really love the product. Usually this means they’re telling their friends to use the product without prompting from the company.
    Startup Playbook
  • Another thing we ask is who desperately needs the product.
    Startup Playbook
  • If the idea does not really excite at least some people the first time they hear it, that’s bad.
    Startup Playbook
  • I personally think the riskier option is having an idea or project you’re really passionate about and working at a safe, easy, unfulfilling job instead.
    Startup Playbook
  • It’s much better to first make a product a small number of users love than a product that a large number of users like. Even though the total amount of positive feeling is the same, it’s much easier to get more users than to go from like to love.
    Startup Playbook
  • But this first part is critical—think about the really successful companies of today. They all started with a product that their early users loved so much they told other people about it. If you fail to do this, you will fail. If you deceive yourself and think your users love your product when they don’t, you will still fail.
    Startup Playbook
  • Once your stakeholders learn something, it’s hard for them to unlearn it.
    Handbook 1 – Rethinking Experience Research – Topic 2 Defining experience research
  • Your stakeholders and the business are often rewarded for things other than building meaningful user experiences.
    Handbook 1 – Rethinking Experience Research – Topic 2 Defining experience research
  • To make a crude point, a product owner or software engineer is rewarded for reaching specific product goals or creating reliable code. While they both might care — and voice an interest — about UX, the bulk of their focus, decision-making, and stress are focused elsewhere.
    Handbook 1 – Rethinking Experience Research – Topic 2 Defining experience research
  • Reasons to Conduct Experience Research Bringing clarity and confidence to decision-making Turn good product ideas into great or delightful ideas Catch and address bad product ideas early Identify and fix usability issues Uncover hidden or unexpected product opportunities, solutions, or ideas Reduce or help prioritize options or planned work Fill gaps or explain patterns in product analytics and log data Track large-scale emotion and behavior
    Handbook 1 – Rethinking Experience Research – Topic 2 Defining experience research
  • In the Fruitful digital library, this definition is used: experience research is an applied science to understand how people perceive, use and build relationships with products and services.
    Handbook 1 – Rethinking Experience Research – Topic 2 Defining experience research
  • UX Practitioners connect businesses and people User experience (UX) practitioners support the people in the business who make product decisions and those who need and use those products. UX practitioners connect business goals with the general needs of a user segment through how a product or service is designed. To do this, they work to understand and support their stakeholders.
    Handbook 1 – Rethinking Experience Research – Topic 1 UX connects the business with people
  • While every person is unique and dynamic, a particular segment's goal(s) are treated as uniform and somewhat fixed. Businesses build products for common goals within a segment, not individual people, as it’s currently impossible to design and maintain a completely customizable product for every single person.
    Handbook 1 – Rethinking Experience Research – Topic 1 UX connects the business with people
  • User experience is an emergent property that’s felt when someone tries to use a product to reach a goal. If someone isn’t using the product for some purpose, there isn’t any user experience to be worried about.
    Handbook 1 – Rethinking Experience Research – Topic 1 UX connects the business with people
  • UX is Someone Using Something, Somewhere, to Do Something Below is a diagram that depicts the user experience visually. There are four main parts or elements in the diagram: a person, a product (or user interface or UI), a goal, and the larger context of use
    Handbook 1 – Rethinking Experience Research – Topic 1 UX connects the business with people
  • One indicator that a business builds products in the dark? Their products and services seem to challenge a universal truth: no one wants the hardest, most challenging way to do something.
    Handbook 1 – Rethinking Experience Research – Topic 1 UX connects the business with people
  • Examples of personal goals include things like getting to work on time, saving more money, aging gracefully, elevating social status, growing a personal brand, or eating healthier. Ideally, most people would prefer to reach their goals in the simplest, quickest way possible.
    Handbook 1 – Rethinking Experience Research – Topic 1 UX connects the business with people
  • People don't care if a business won't reach its goals. But they'll care if they don't reach theirs.
    Handbook 1 – Rethinking Experience Research – Topic 1 UX connects the business with people
  • People buy and use products to reach personal goals While businesses care about profitability and scalability, the people that buy and use their products don’t. Most people don’t care if your company won’t reach its third-quarter financial goals. But everyone cares about their personal goals, wants, and needs. These personal goals might not be as lofty as “increase revenue to $100 million dollars next year”, but they’re every bit as important.
    Handbook 1 – Rethinking Experience Research – Topic 1 UX connects the business with people
  • "User" is a very generic, reductive label placed on people who use products and services. Technically, someone is a "user" only when they're using a product, not when they're living their lives unaware or uninterested in what a business makes. In the Fruitful library, the label "user" is consciously used as little as possible. Instead, labels like "people", "humans", or "participant" are used in an effort to humanize the ~8,000,000,000 "users" on the planet.
    Handbook 1 – Rethinking Experience Research – Topic 1 UX connects the business with people
  • Scalable means more and more people are able to enjoy and use these products and services without a drop in quality or detail. In some businesses, the network effect can make the product or service better for everyone as it scales.
    Handbook 1 – Rethinking Experience Research – Topic 1 UX connects the business with people
  • Businesses can't - currently - build a perfectly individualized product at scale so they focus on building some products that accomplish some goals for some group of people. But that doesn't mean building something for a handful of people.
    Handbook 1 – Rethinking Experience Research – Topic 1 UX connects the business with people
  • In other words: It can't be, therefore it isn't. When you give up basic trust in your own experience, and instead embrace ‘scientific’ beliefs, “what Buddha said” and what people think, you undermine your own progress. Will you dismiss what happened as an illusion to be forgotten? Will you reach for the comfort of conventional explanations? Or will you accept reality? Will you think for yourself?
    Write This on Your Forehead | Microserenity.com
  • Trust Your Experience.
    Write This on Your Forehead | Microserenity.com
  • . Use your fist or a small ball such as a tennis ball to squeeze the underarm on the side of the body opposite from the closed nostril. For example, if the left nostril is closed, squeeze the left fist under the right arm. You can also press this area over the back of a tall chair. Tighten the upper arm against the object.
    Meditation and Your Nose | Microserenity.com
  • A simple way to control the aura is to imagine it spinning. You can enlarge it by spinning it one direction, and shrink it by spinning in the opposite direction.
    Sensing the Human Aura | Microserenity.com
  • Inhale gently and smoothly through the nose and mentally direct the air down to this center while smiling to it. You are not swallowing air, just inhaling normally and following it all the way down to the center. (If you have difficulty with nasal breathing, see Meditation and your nose.) Relax and exhale through the nose. It can be very helpful to make the exhalations longer than inhalations, and to constrict the throat slightly on exhale so it makes a sound. Then - get the smiling feeling and repeat.
    Perfect Inner Weather | Microserenity.com
  • Smile to this center. The feeling you want is like when you have had some warm cocoa or other pleasant drink and it goes down and makes your tummy warm. Another trick is to imagine smiling at a rainbow or summer day. Get a smiling feeling in there even if you think you have nothing to smile about.
    Perfect Inner Weather | Microserenity.com
  • See if you can drop the ideas and thoughts and fantasies and stories that are filling up your head. Empty yourself so you can see what’s actually in front of you. See what your breath is actually like, right now, instead of what you think it will be or what you’re thinking about.
    Approaching Life with Beginner's Mind - zen habits zen habits
  • See it with fresh eyes. Drop your preconceived ideas and just look clearly at what’s in front of you.
    Approaching Life with Beginner's Mind - zen habits zen habits
  • Here, we present evidence that epigenetic modulation underlies VNS-induced improvements in cognition. We show that VNS enhances novelty preference (NP); alters the hippocampal, cortical, and blood epigenetic transcriptomes; and epigenetically modulates neuronal plasticity and stress–response signaling genes in male Sprague Dawley rats.
    Cognition-Enhancing Vagus Nerve Stimulation Alters the Epigenetic Landscape - PMC
  • A psychedelic experience increases entropy in the brain, loosening those bonds and opening the mind to a deluge of possibilities, many of which can be confusing or bizarre, hence the hallucinations and strange thoughts. But this could explain why recent studies have found that psilocybin from magic mushrooms can cure depression and act as a reset mechanism in the brain, or that potent doses of Ayahuasca or Ibogaine can cure heroin and cocaine addicts of a lifetime of addiction.
    Psychedelic Research Finds Ego Exists in This Part of the Brain | Gaia