Following your passion is a luxury. Following your values is a necessity. Passion is a fickle magnet: it pulls you toward your current interests. Values are a steady compass: they point you toward a future purpose. Passion brings immediate joy. Values provide lasting meaning.

Love when you discover a new, exciting tool right at the moment you’re starting a project. I’m working on a presentation and using Google Slides just felt wrong. That’s when I discovered iA Presenter. It’s such a breath of fresh air product for making compelling presentations.

iPhone 14 Pro camera is a huge leap, says Halide appleinsider.com/articles/22/11…

Some of the best mobile engineers in the industry were just laid off at Lyft today 😢. If you're hiring, please let me know I'll put you in touch. 🚀

One of the best products and teams executing right now. I used this product 2 years ago for the first time. It keeps getting better. If you’re in the audio or video creation space, pay attention to

GPT-3 is the new Stories.

Cory Booker And Rand Paul File Bill To Reschedule Psychedelic Breakthrough Therapies And Remove Research Barriers marijuanamoment.net/cory-booker-an…

missed the news this week - Google allowing health and fitness apps share data. On iOS we take this type of system for granted but Android still doesn’t really have it - this is a big step - Google's Health Connect app is now available in beta techcrunch.com/2022/11/14/goo…

Working on my second “full on” presentation with iA Presenter. I can’t imagine using another tool for making an amazing looking, clear and concise presentation. Very few productivity tools are a joy to spend time in. This one is. 🙏🏻

Very interesting to learn that Mastodon has a rss feed for every user. All you have to do is add “.rss’ at the end of URL - mastodon.social/@ozlubling.rss

ChatGPT is one of those rare moments in technology where you see a glimmer of how everything is going to be different going forward.

The Shreyas Doshi PM Career course on Maven 🏛 is an absolute marvel. The experience is super professional. The teachings, information and resources are clear, insightful and very relevant to folks at almost any level. Highly recommended! maven.com/shreyas-doshi/…

Finally reading Josh Seiden’s Outcomes over Output. Not sure what took me this long. This quote nails it - “an MVP is not v1.0 of your product. think of an MVP as the smallest thing you can make to learn if your hypothesis is correct” #productmanagement

Being opinionated means that you stand for something. You believe there is principled way of doing things and have reasoning why it's beneficial. The opposite are products that are everything for everyone. It lacks thinking and puts the burden on the user to figure it out

Happy New Year! Woohoo!

A tragedy of product work almost everywhere is that analytical insight is considered smart & requiring hard work while creative insight is considered cute & not requiring much work. And “smart & hardworking” is what gets you big kudos, so it is no wonder most products are so meh.

A tragedy of product work everywhere is that too many teams are actively anti-creative, and when they have to re-evaluate why their product is not winning, they excitedly come up with efficiency ideas rather than questioning the mindset that led to this plight in the first place.

Paul Graham I think it's a fundamental problem of incentives at scale. Imagine you have an idea that has a 10% chance of being extremely valuable but a 90% chance of making you look dumb. A smart startup would take the chance, but a smart middle manager at a bigco would squash the idea

Why the heck is health care still tied to employment! In this era of layoffs happening left & right, this should strike us as more ridiculous/ a random consequence of historical events than ever.