Archive - Mic Check

John Maeda on Uphill Thinking

a little back-to-school inspiration

Aug 26, 2023 •

Connecting the dots 🔵 ⚪ ⚫

attempting to appreciate our inability to forecast the future

Aug 18, 2023 •

Crafting a more beautiful question

Inspired by Warren Berger's book: A More Beautiful Question

Aug 11, 2023 •

The Creative Act of Startup Building

Let's take a break from tactical product and go-to-market musings

Aug 4, 2023 •

July 2023

On the hunt for critical events 🔍

Life update: I think I'm *slowly* getting smarter about founder-led sales

Jul 28, 2023 •

Pulling the future into the present 💫

GenAI redefines what "average" means

Jul 21, 2023 •

We DEMAND perfection ⚙️

We (unfortunately) hold Generative AI to a crazy high standard

Jul 14, 2023 •

Building narrative arcs into products

Reminder: product onboarding is just storytelling

Jul 7, 2023 •

June 2023

Failure as a superpower?

Do people still make "fail compilation" videos? Bring 'em back.

Jun 30, 2023 •

You've got 99 problems...

but an urgent one ain't one

Jun 23, 2023 •

Once up-pawn a time♟️

The first step of a Chess addiction is to admit it...

Jun 16, 2023 •

Navigating our "Messy Middle"

Welp, I held off using sports analogies for as long as I could

Jun 9, 2023 •

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