Lots of great planning advice in this First Round article. There are two things related to Strategy that I especially like. First, this definition (Strategy is not a vague vision statement!): Strategy is the sequencing of how you take a very long-term end goal and break that down into more digestible components. Done right, it […]
James Stanier has a good argument for why deadline-driven development is so… difficult: Given that non-technical people don’t understand why software is hard, dates become the stick that they beat you with when you don’t deliver on time. Don’t ask me why, it’s just human behavior. I’m sure you’ve done it when roadworks have taken […]
Great Rolling Stone review of a perfect late-career album by The Cure: ‘Songs of a Lost World’ is the triumphant power-doom epic it needed to be, fully the Cure’s best since ‘Disintegration’, as Smith reaches into the depths of his cobwebbed heart, going deep into adult loss and grief. It’s an album that begins with […]
Elena Verna on the importance of focusing on team experiences in B2B products: The key to any successful B2B Product-Led Growth (PLG) strategy lies in connecting end-user adoption to enterprise-level deals. But because B2B PLG often looks like, smells like, and acts like consumer product, it pulls product and marketing teams into a deadly gravitation […]
I read about Zach Braff and His All-Star Benefit Concert for the 20th Anniversary of ‘Garden State’, and it reminded me how much I loved the movie despite all the hate it gets. “Back in this era, the Virgin Megastore was around the corner from a movie theater in [New York City’s] Union Square,” Braff […]
This is another amazing AHP essay, this time about the critiques of Gen Z employees: I’ve long argued that the critique of younger generations is a sublimated critique of a generation’s own parenting and child-rearing practices: no one wants to admit that the decisions they made (or tacitly endorsed) are responsible for the type of […]
I spent the day at Lenny’s Summit with over 1,000 other product people. The line-up of talks was fantastic, but you never know how it’s really going to go. I am happy to say that the hit rate of good talks was quite a bit higher than some other conferences I’ve been to. I tried […]