Nate Parrott's mental models

Their wordsand every PM knows like you write a doc and you know it's kind of an uphill battle to get people to read it and the best way to sell people on ideas is to get a designer to mock up or prototype the actual idea.

Their wordsAs it becomes easier and easier to build software, the question of what you build becomes more and more important. design becomes really really valuable when the engineering becomes compressed and I don't want to say commoditized but like a little bit of like now everybody has a baseline level of really good software engineering available to them and so of course the differentiator is going to be your design and your ideas and your positioning and your creativity

Their wordsthe models are really really good at doing the sort of busy work of moving things around and piecing things together and turning ideas into different formats, but they're not so good at the actual ideas and the design thinking. And so what I can do as a designer is I found that I spend a lot more of my time just like going on long walks and like recording voice notes and like thinking to myself because the good ideas are the currency these days.