Aditya Kothadiya's Blog

I still post random, but quite meaningful thoughts in less than 140 characters on Twitter. Here are my latest ones -

My Thoughts -

1. I think being “busy” is not a good indicator of our progress, but being “productive” is.
2. I think decisions are often made before we discuss it. We just try to find some support for it.
3. While developing a feature, we need to think like a user, not like a creator.
4. “Talk” is cheap. “Dream” is even cheaper. Then what’s stopping us from dreaming big?
5. Giving attention is of no use if we are not giving attention to the details.
6. Sometimes we learn the easy way, sometimes the hard way. As long as we are learning, it doesn’t matter “how” part of it.
7. If “designing” is an art then is “coding” a poetry? It’s not very literal or verbose, and there is always some hidden meaning.
8. Traffic jams are rarely because of real casualties on the road, but because of stupid drivers who think they are multi-taskers.
9. I hate slow drivers. I hate fast drivers too.

Famous Quotes -

1. What gets measured, gets managed. -Peter Drucker
2. “Value is difficult but possible to quantify – it’s the ratio of benefits to cost, divided by those of the alternatives.” -Nick Hanauer
3. If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. -Thomas Watson
4. Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good, it’s the thing you do that makes you good. -Malcolm Gladwell
5. No one who can rise before dawn 360 days a year fails to make his family rich. -Chinese Proverb
6. In a startup no facts exist inside the building, only opinions. -Steve Blank

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I read a very insightful article on How To Spot a Breakthrough: Tips from Early Amazon Investor Nick Hanauer. It talks about what are the key elements to identify breakthrough ideas. The key elements are value creation and social disruption.

Value Creation:

Value is difficult but possible to quantify – it’s the ratio of benefits to cost, divided by those of the alternatives. Benefits are things like a product’s durability, speed, and appeal; costs are things like price, distribution, and training. The solution should be in some way 10 times better than the existing alternative. No breakthrough idea has ever delivered less.

Social Disruption:

• If everyone thinks it’s a great idea, it probably sucks.
• If people understand it, you’re too late.
• If people don’t like it and don’t understand it, it probably still sucks.

Read on the complete article here for more examples and great stories.