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Adam Wiggins

Adam Wiggins

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Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.

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2 of Adam Wiggins's claims fit 2 mental models. Most often: Craft in the details, Power laws.

Models they name

Their own words name the idea.

Craft in the details

Care about the parts nobody sees; quality shows in the details.

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Models we see in what they say

Our reading: their claim applies the idea without naming it. The claim is theirs; filing it here is ours.

Power laws

In many things a few cases account for most of the result, so the average misleads and the outlier decides.

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A business succeeds through a small number of highly effective distribution channels, not many mediocre ones.

  1. Adam Wiggins Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku any given business will find a small number of highly-effective channels, and the rest don't matter. Muse retrospectiveadamwiggins.com · 17 Feb 2024All korrents from this piece
    any given business will find a small number of highly-effective channels, and the rest don't matter.