Love this. Building on Waqas’s post, this is one way to exhibit a high agency mindset. Focus on what you can control rather than blaming users. Claiming ownership shifts the question: what can I do to improve or better yet, prevent this?

The product versus distribution debate is facile. It’s not a competition between the two. In fact, they’re not as distinct as people make it out to be on the surface. They work hand-in-hand. If you start from a focus on the needs of the market/segment/user - you can’t have a

It is a poor strategy to make culture about inspiration. Inspiration does not survive the toughest decisions and situations. But something else does: obligation. The brain's obligation circuitry is wholly different from the brain's inspiration circuitry. And when the going

It’s crap like this that must remind us that women’s online experience is just completely different from that of men. Especially on social platforms. That should matter a lot to people like us who build tech products. Kudos to Mina Kimes for combating this nonsensical vitriol

Shipping fast without learning fast and most importantly adapting fast is an example of you satisfying your own needs more so than your users’ needs.

At a large enough organization, there’s a lot of truth to this. Shipping the org chart becomes the “default” (i.e. inertia leads you to this state), and it can require a tremendous amount of energy to break the cycle and work well across silos. In such environments, even if

Well said.

This is especially true if you needed a level of “reality distortion” to achieve said success. This is especially difficult if your success was more to do with luck than you might like to believe. This is especially valuable when your success is still a fraction of your

I think the reason this is true is because there are so many things that contribute to failure. But often much fewer things that lead to success. And it's often obvious what those things are. Learning what works is much more clarifying than the "what if" of failure.

Product Owners, oft maligned, rise like the Phoenix from the ashes.

Boosting for anyone here who’d be interested.

This is quite a thread! A canonical example of how unbridled margin expansion & market control inevitably create the conditions for disruption - and perhaps eventual demise? - for the incumbent. Remember - one man’s margin = another man’s opportunity. “instead of a vampire

I’m here to report back that if you are willing to go to the depths of your pain, you will be able to go deeper into your joy and gratitude than you ever even knew was possible.

Do you remember that time when they distracted you from the real things with the current thing?

People believe that building alignment is synonymous with moving slowly. This is only true if you are (a) building alignment too widely or (b) not skilled at building alignment. In other words, unless you’re operating at big scale, it’s a skill issue. The latter is what we