Your periodic reminder:

Every mountain is two mountains: the one that urges us to climb and the one that punishes us when we do. Dee W Hock // h/t Shreyas Doshi #day #reminder

This is the problem with the media. The focus on a small handful of students walking out on Jerry Seinfeld’s speech has completely obscured any coverage of the actual speech, which is excellent, completely apolitical, and full of gems all young people need to hear.

Here it is in…

It is easy to make fun of PMs & engineers in big companies who are just launching features, moving pixels around, and are focused on “outputs over outcomes”, but you must understand that some environments are so messed up that a launch (really _any_ launch) is by itself a huge…

How to be present: youtube.com/watch?v=XzCxRe…

If you have a fairly competent team, then the root cause of failure in executing won’t be that you just couldn’t build the thing nor that you didn’t have the work ethic, rather the root cause is almost certainly that your thinking or your communication just weren’t good enough.

A subtle & common manifestation of the Fundamental Attribution Error in product work:

When others don’t buy into our ideas we are certain it is a problem with our storytelling skills & when we don’t buy into their ideas we are certain it is a problem with their reasoning skills.

Ever wonder why some product people have a deep understanding of philosophy?

This is not a coincidence, and while it might seem very theoretical to the uninitiated, it is of immense practical value if you want to consistently build successful products: youtu.be/ZZkT6nF3i64