Quotes by Kevin Maney

Kevin Maney

High fidelity is a rich experience, and you’ll put up with terrible convenience to get it – maybe it’s high cost, waiting in line, jumping through hoops. High convenience is the opposite – it’s a commodity, but it’s cheap and easy and ubiquitous. A great exclusive boutique shop is high fidelity; Wal-Mart is high convenience. Both are hard to establish in their own way. The thing to remember about sustaining either is that you can’t sit still. Some other entity will always find a way to challenge your fidelity position or your convenience position.

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Opposites

Waiting In Line

I knew I wanted to be a writer from as far back as I can remember. That was my talent. Lord knows it wasn’t math.

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Remember

Talent

I reluctantly signed up for a journalism major, thinking I needed a fall-back way to make money should my career as a novelist fail to take off. As I started to try on journalism, including doing internships and working at the campus paper, I found I actually liked it. So I started to want to be a journalist.

Careers

Fall

Thinking

I’m that tech writer who gets on stage and plays funny tech songs. I wouldn’t want that to be all I’m known for, but it’s a bit of a differentiator.

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Want

If you spot a market where the only choices are at either one end or the other – high fidelity or high convenience – there’s probably a big opportunity at the other end. That was the opening for Federal Express, for instance. When it started, there was only one mail service in America – the US Postal Service, which was high convenience. Fred Smith created a high-fidelity mail service.

America

Choices

Opportunity

If you want to stand out, find a way to be either high fidelity or high convenience in whatever you do. If you’re halfway in between on both measures, you’re not going to make people feel very excited about you.

People

Want

Way

In the long run magazines can’t be a convenience play – the Web has stolen that. So magazines have to be high fidelity – a fantastic experience – to thrive. Magazines will survive the Internet age, but only the ones that give people an experience they just can’t get anywhere else. A magazine will have to be truly loved to make it.

Long

Play

Running

Now companies tend to mine gigantic databases for insights into what might happen six months from now. That might always be valuable, but there’s a different kind of value – and a competitive edge – in processing ongoing streams of data through a software model that can quickly and constantly make predictions about, say, whether a certain customer is going to defect, or an aircraft is going to run into trouble.

Data

Running

Six Months

Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same.

Brain

Computer

Knowing

Our brains seem to have the power to do one or the other – record and remember every detail, or chunk it to higher level concepts and forget the details. We can’t seem to do both. The fact that you could not fly over a city and remember every detail is not something to worry about.

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Cities

Worry

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Quotes by Kevin Maney

Kevin Maney

I knew I wanted to be a writer from as far back as I can remember. That was my talent. Lord knows it wasn’t math.

I’m that tech writer who gets on stage and plays funny tech songs. I wouldn’t want that to be all I’m known for, but it’s a bit of a differentiator.

If you want to stand out, find a way to be either high fidelity or high convenience in whatever you do. If you’re halfway in between on both measures, you’re not going to make people feel very excited about you.

Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same.

Our brains seem to have the power to do one or the other – record and remember every detail, or chunk it to higher level concepts and forget the details. We can’t seem to do both. The fact that you could not fly over a city and remember every detail is not something to worry about.

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