Creative Navy

“If you want to do great things unfortunately you have to conform to reality and not to your own emotion or to whatever you agree with everyone else. Life and reality is very harsh. We don't have to be harsh to each other. But as long as we're trying something …”

“I think it definitely helps creating little silos where the product or any kind of challenge can be looked at from different perspectives is useful because obviously you, when there are fewer people around, there's less to worry about in terms of this is going…”

“The fact that you don't feel good about it is not an indicator that it's not the right thing to do. Oftentimes, the right thing to do doesn't feel good at all.”

“Whenever you feel hurt by someone's feedback, or what someone says about something you've done, it's your own problem. Even if it feels like they're being a jerk to you, it's your own problem, as long as what they say is sound conceptually.”

“It helps a lot to develop a culture that encourages being critical. So that means that you might prefer having people who are too critical or maybe criticism being phrased too harsh in terms of how you communicate it rather than a culture where you cannot tole…”

“Anything that you allow into the product is going to add a lot more complexity than you think. So it's very, very dangerous. You should treat it like it's radioactive. You need something in the product, but everything you put in is dangerous.”

“It's also very common to see corporations or large teams who fall into the group thing trap because they're in large organizations. There is a lot of culture around not upsetting people and being nice to each other, which is of course great in terms of getting…”

“On the other hand, if you take one principle or one aspect of this entire ecosystem, perhaps it could be the aspect of integrating all of these. In some way. And if you really figure out how they can be integrated or that one principle, how it could be made ex…”