Understanding behavior versus understanding metrics  

David Karp of Tumblr shares some interesting insights about how he looks at creating products. There are only a handful of companies where products are driven by feeling and understanding of human behavior rather than metrics. I’ve found that metrics are typically a popular, but overly simplistic, proxy for understanding how people behave and use a product.

 
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Fiction, Feedback Loops, and Mirror Neurons

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