Seven Product Management Principles 1. Start With Why 2. Understand the Problem 3. Focus Relentlessly 5. Empower the Team 6. Embrace Uncertainty 7. Balance Inputs, Outputs, Outcomes, and Learning 8. Iterate, Iterate, Iterate Jens-Fabian Goetzmann link.medium.com/OSDodu6sadb

Absolutely fascinating insight I just heard from a hiring manager: Adding junior engineers makes the senior engineers on his team *better*, because the constant "Why" questions force them to articulate and confront their own assumptions. Hire juniors for a stronger team!

So true!

In 99% of startups, failing to execute is a much bigger danger than being copied. So it's a mistake to risk the former in order to avoid the latter.

"If you can't describe something that sounds compelling and that people really want and need in a one-page press release, then there's no point in building it." review.firstround.com/how-to-build-a…

Paul Graham What gets me is everyone cheering wealth taxes think we're going to _finally_ get better healthcare or education. Not a chance. We have plenty of money now. The gov't throws away trillions every year, most of it on bombing strangers and they're just gonna do more of that.

How to Price Your Product in a Startup - Mind the Product mindtheproduct.com/how-to-price-y…

Great thread on managing remotely.

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Luggage aisle at Target. One small omen of the American economy this summer.

Sadly. Sounds about right.

“The shortcoming with the sales-led structure is that the product is usually a second-thought for the profit center teams and this creates a gap in proper dissemination of sales and marketing insight to products and engineering.” — Damilola Ajiboye link.medium.com/8VhClup7jmb

Understand customer needs & use cases, identify new market opportunities, etc. : Yvonne Jouffrault, our Product expert member of #Ring2Success program, gives us all the best practices 🥇 for building a product feedback loop which performs 👇🏻 bit.ly/3Hn4yu1

Touché. RIP to the traditional CRM. “Within 10 years, every object-oriented system of record will have an AI-enabled events data pipeline on top of it, developed by a new generation of third-party vendors with expertise in these new technologies” flip.it/u9xZXX

At age 24 Amazon let me manage 2500 employees and a $50,000,000 business unit I learned that leadership at scale is simply about following this one framework This is going to make you and I hundreds of millions of dollars

Reversion to the mean: the real long COVID luttig.substack.com/p/mean-reversi…

"Well-managed software is quiet. Software that is dramatic, where shipping is a big event, is poorly managed. Well-managed software is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the changes are small, well-observed, and frequent. It’s as uneventful and routine as a heartbeat”

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I believe that the way the industry is building asynchronous event-driven applications is often misguided. A🧵