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Yasith Abeynayaka
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people skills are never primary. In my experience, they can be valuable when used by people like Lou—
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”
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“Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“There's two kinds of people in this world when you boil it all down. You got your talkers and you got your doers. Most people are just talkers, all they do is talk. But when it is all said and done, it's the doers that change this world. And when they do that, they change us, and that's why we never forget them. So which one are you? Do you just talk about it, or do you stand up and do something about it? Because believe you me, all the rest of it is just coffee house bullshit.”
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“Lean UX is a transparent process that not only reveals what designers do but encourages participation from everyone on the team.”
― Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams
― Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams
“One thing that makes it difficult to use outcomes inside larger organizations is that they’re almost never organized around achieving outcomes. Instead they’re organized around making stuff.”
― Outcomes Over Output: Why customer behavior is the key metric for business success
― Outcomes Over Output: Why customer behavior is the key metric for business success
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