I’m lucky enough to do #product type things - #productmanagement, #productowner, #agile etc - for a living.
I try to share the lessons I've learned or am reminded of here.
And, yes, sometimes I do talk about #videogames and #actionfigures.
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Credit is a lagging indicator of politics. Impact is a leading indicator of value.
Choose accordingly.
"Gray hair signals an enhanced ability to survive—conditional on having reached the gray hair stage, a man is likely to be more resistant to the vagaries of life.”
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Good work. Real problems.: https://www.imminentmurphy.com/2025/06/30/good-work-real-problems.html
In which I reflect on my father’s recent passing and the importance of doing meaningful work in your life
"Good listening, when it works, reveals new worlds beneath the surface of people’s words.“
-Charles Duhigg
"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?"
-Seymour Cray
"Humanity always reenacts the same bildungsroman. All the principles you learn through your struggles today had been written down by the ancients thousands of years ago.”
-Ken Liu
"The business should always be outrunning the processes, so chaos is right where you want to be.”
-Eric Schmidt
(I’m 100% in agreement but do like the sentiment about embracing creative reinvention)
The dearth of any meaningful innovation (or competition) in the ebook market generally makes me sad.
For example: how about offering the option of excluding any end-matter (appendices, indices, etc) from our Percentage Read calculations?