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…the best ways to ensure your habits remain satisfying… is to pick behaviors that align with your personality and skills. Work hard on the things that come easy.

Once a habit has been established… it’s important to continue to advance in small ways. The little improvements and new challenges keep you engaged.

Without variety, we get bored. And boredom is perhaps the greatest villain on the quest for self-improvement.

At some point, everyone faces the same challenge on the journey of self-improvement: you have to fall in love with boredom.

“Improvement is not just about learning habits, it’s also about fine-tuning them.”

“Each improvement is like adding a grain of sand to the positive side of the scale, slowly tilting things in your favor. Eventually, if you stick with it, you hit a tipping point. Suddenly, it feels easier to stick with good habits.”

“The secret to getting results that last is to never stop making improvements. It’s remarkable what you can build if you just don’t stop.”

…’outside-in’ product development starts with an understanding of the customer’s problem space.

…a team who has this set of four essential skills – product management, interaction design, visual design, and front-end development – the ‘A-Team.’

It makes intuitive sense and jibes with experience that the estimation error early in a project is larger than the estimation error near the end of a project.