This book is a practical guide to achieving personal and professional success through timeless principles and strategies. It emphasizes the importance of adapting to change, taking risks, learning from mistakes. With actionable advice and insightful stories, this book will inspire readers to embrace creativity, stay current, and continuously improve themselves and their teams

In a world where people are at the heart of every design decision, "People over Products" is an essential guide for designers seeking to create meaningful and impactful products that resonate with their target audience. This captivating book dives deep into the realm of demographic-driven product design, offering a wealth of knowledge, theories, and practical insights to help designers unlock the power of understanding and empathizing with their users. Written by an expert in the field of product design, this book paints a vivid picture of the intersection between creativity, user-centricity, and demographic insights. Through engaging storytelling and expert analysis, readers are taken on a captivating journey that explores the intricate relationship between design, human behavior, and societal impact. From demystifying the art of demographic research and persona development to delving into the nuances of designing for different generations, genders, abilities, and contexts, "People over Products" equips designers with the tools and strategies they need to craft products that align with the needs, aspirations, and values of their intended audience. By embracing the principles of ethical and responsible design, this book empowers designers to create products that not only delight users but also make a positive difference in their lives and the world at large. Immerse yourself in the world of demographic-driven design, and let "People over Products" be your trusted companion as you embark on a transformative journey to create products that truly resonate with and enrich the lives of your users. Discover the art of putting people at the forefront of your design process, and unlock the immense potential of demographic insights to shape a future where products are not just objects, but powerful catalysts for human connection, empowerment, and well-being.

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Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis explores applications of rhetorically informed approaches to corpus research. Bringing together contributions from scholars in a variety of fields, it takes up questions of how theories and traditions in rhetorical analysis can be integrated with corpus techniques in order to enrich our understanding of language use, variation, and history. The studies included in this volume shed light on areas as diverse as student academic writing, political discourse, and the digital humanities. These studies all make use of a dictionary-based tagger called DocuScope, which recognizes tens-of-millions of words and phrases and slots them into categories based on their rhetorical functions. While DocuScope provides a through-line that both links the studies’ various analytical procedures and primes their rhetorical insights, the volume is about more than the explanatory power of a single tool. It demonstrates how rhetorically informed approaches can complement more established corpus methodologies, underscoring their combined potential.

A startup executive and investor draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and as an executive at Uber to address how tech’s most successful products have solved the dreaded "cold start problem”—by leveraging network effects to launch and scale toward billions of users. Although software has become easier to build, launching and scaling new products and services remains difficult. Startups face daunting challenges entering the technology ecosystem, including stiff competition, copycats, and ineffective marketing channels. Teams launching new products must consider the advantages of “the network effect,” where a product or service’s value increases as more users engage with it. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other tech giants utilize network effects, and most tech products incorporate them, whether they’re messaging apps, workplace collaboration tools, or marketplaces. Network effects provide a path for fledgling products to break through, attracting new users through viral growth and word of mouth. Yet most entrepreneurs lack the vocabulary and context to describe them—much less understand the fundamental principles that drive the effect. What exactly are network effects? How do teams create and build them into their products? How do products compete in a market where every player has them? Andrew Chen draws on his experience and on interviews with the CEOs and founding teams of LinkedIn, Twitch, Zoom, Dropbox, Tinder, Uber, Airbnb, and Pinterest to offer unique insights in answering these questions. Chen also provides practical frameworks and principles that can be applied across products and industries. The Cold Start Problem reveals what makes winning networks thrive, why some startups fail to successfully scale, and, most crucially, why products that create and compete using the network effect are vitally important today.