The company behind Muse is structured as a small partnership. Mark and Adam talk about why the team wanted this unusual approach and how it's working so far. Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show notes Muse is Hiring an Engineering Partner startup employee stock options Netflix Freedom & Responsibility Culture startup founder Starbucks / Howard Shultz Google OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) Salesforce V2MOM (Vison, Values, Methods, Obstacles, Measures) alignment Management by Peter Drucker expensing exercise window vesting and cliffs dilution vest in peace cap table re-up agency Mad Men professonal services cult of personality Disney company transition after Walt’s death trial project / pilot project indie

Professional tools need a manual to explain how they work, but not all manuals are created equal. Mark and Adam discuss their mutual love of manuals, what makes a manual great, and why we chose video as the primary medium for the Muse Interface Handbook. Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show notes Muse Interface Handbook How to use your Rocket Espresso machine and make beautiful coffee Go by Example Heroku Dev Center Ulysses tutorials Working Copy Users‘ guide GoodNotes how-to guides Procreate Handbook Stripe API Reference unix man pages The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer tacit knowledge The Matrix / I know Kung Fu Building Heroku Add-ons glossary mental model Muse design article Capstone manuscript green screen Looom User Guide RTFM out-of-box experience (OOBE) Bear Notion templates vi

Ideas are foundational for creative and knowledge work. Mark and Adam talk about fodder, making time to ideate, and the value of fresh surroundings. Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show notes ideation House M.D. Where Good Ideas Come from video essays active reading Moleskine Field Notes post-it notes commonplace book OmniGraffle MindNode Google Keep Bear Drafts Shape Up Pocket Dropbox Goodreads Cowen‘s Second Law Slow Software Wiggins‘ Law breadth-first vertical slice state of flow Deep Work academic sabbatical Getting Things Done mindfulness

Muse has a modeless interface with no onscreen toolbars. Mark and Adam talk about the long research journey that led us here. Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show notes modelessness The Humane Interface administrative debris quasimode tablet platforms command glyphs Muse design article Procreate Paper by FiftyThree Apple Human Interface Guidelines Ink & Switch Surface Studio Surface Dial Google Jamboard Catalyst Xerox PARC Bell Labs Concepts technical pens Looom Teenage Engineering ortho remote Wacom tablets