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This is one of the best observations from @shreyas. Not only true for PMs but any mid-senior leadership role too. If your manager considers a very hard part of your job as a low / medium complexity job, it’s very difficult to win. Seriously. They don’t even need to be an…
The smartest person in the room is not the one with an answer, but the person asking the best questions.
It’s been a tough few months for Sonos. A redesign of the app caused outrage. So when a friend tipped me off to the r/Sonos subreddit filled with 261K angry people, I braced for impact. I found the expected complaints—but I also noticed they really liked an employee named Keith.
Cybernetics comes from the greek word kybernetikos which means "to steer" or "good at steering." It illustrates the properties of intelligent systems. To have a goal. Act toward that goal. Sense where you are. Compare it to the goal. And act again based on that feedback.
Task switching creates “event boundaries” in your memory encoding circuits, which leads to fragmented and less robust recall and accuracy of your experiences, also degrades knowledge etc. @CharanRanganath explains on the Huberman Lab podcast out now:
Great engineering teams do the boring things well: - Internal docs - Code organization - Bugs & testing - Local env - Deployment - Team coordination Hard to do well, but when you do, it's so much faster and more fun to build!
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A CFO recently recommended we read DoorDash’s shareholder letters for a simple articulation of their capital allocation strategy and it’s now obvious to me why: this is such a user friendly way of explaining R&D investment in software and internet companies. Summary/notes: (1/)
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It took me all of this year to synthesize a decade's work into the 8 part "Accelerating Wisdom" series. Each one features a world-class expert. It’s free. And it will take you less than a single working day to enjoy.
Truths about being a great founder, like them or not. I just spent the weekend with @FoundersPodcast. Here are 21 perfect ideas from David Senra, and his decades of studying founders. 1. Money comes naturally as a result of service. 2. Ordinary things, done with extraordinary…
What kind of vicious, pathetic liars these guys are!! These guys should be charged and arrested! The CBI went on to say that since 2010, not a single student who studied at the school had changed their religion while studying there.
19 weird tricks to find your $1M startup idea (saas, software, agencies etc)
NotebookLM is quite powerful and worth playing with It is a bit of a re-imagination of the UIUX of working with LLMs organized around a collection of sources you upload and then refer to with queries, seeing results alongside and with citations. But the…
Why Your Plans & OKRs Aren't a Strategy with @RogerLMartin 0:00 – Welcome to Dubai, Roger’s first impressions 1:10 – Why Procter & Gamble produces 10% of S&P 500 CEOs 4:45 – The secret behind P&G's strategic discipline 5:54 – What is strategy? Roger Martin’s definition…
$2m ARR startup idea of the day rebuild chartable (billboard 100 for podcasters) just got this email from spotify that chartable is shutting down from time to time you get a gift like this a big company shuts down something a niche of people love the validation is already…
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For anybody who missed one of the most memorable and powerful speeches yet given at the U.N. General Assembly, here is the full speech by PM Netanyahu. This man is a true statesman. The west and all the world can learn what a true leader is. He won’t cower or hide. He faces his…
Reasons to write a blog are: - It improves your reasoning. - It increases your luck. - It creates a durable record of thoughtfulness. - You can refer to it. - It becomes a gathering point for people who like the things you do. - It provides a temporal bridge between old hobbies.
For every such take, there will always be an alternative. And don't worry, these things take a long time to play out. I always refer back to the post "Phone call is dead" when we launched. 15 years back. Just yesterday handled more than 10 million phone calls on our platform.
reminder, the entry-level tech job market is still totally cooked, like 4.0's from Berkeley are getting 0 job offers
I'm obsessed with unlikely investors: - At age 5 he could speak ~20 words. - Routinely got in fist fights in school. - Cursed out a Rabbi at age 12. You'd be crazy to bet on him. No outside capital. Just one guy buying stocks. Built a $100MM portfolio in 30 years. Legend.
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'Applied Linear Algebra' - Alistair Savage (2019, PDF):
Copy and Paste these ChatGPT Prompts to complete your months of work in minutes:
When Hindu temples have so much jewelry, land, and other assets, and you say people are getting converted because of hunger, who should be ashamed?
This is how Stan Druckenmiller found ways to invest in Argentina at the beginning of the year.
5 opensource frameworks to build LLM apps with RAG (100% free):
Recently, I have been thinking about the following: I have become disenfranchised by the Second Brain concept. I believe in having a digital archive, but I now realize that over the last few years, I have become less prone to commit to memory things that should be in memory. A…
A goldmine of tutorials about Generative AI Agents! You'll find anything Agents-related in this repository. From simple explanations to the most advanced topics. Star this repo from @NirDiamantAI: The content is organized in the following categories:…
Most people underestimate AI’s ability to code. From an engineer at Meta:
@Dktaim Guess your parents/loved ones have never asked you to improve or pointed out any mistake of yours, so you don't understand how care and criticism can co-exist.
Elon doesn't juggle Tesla, X, SpaceX simultaneously, but rather in cycles of extreme focus. Here's how he does it 👇
How to write a hypothesis
Want to not get bored in life? Take a highly ambitious project. Don’t see a point in it? Remind yourself that it’s to prevent getting bored. Not making enough progress? Well, that’s expected as it’s ambitious.
the problem with AI-for-design tools is that they only help “diverge” ie give you a ton of options & possibilities but “converging” on the right options from infinite possibilities requires understanding, human intellect & context doing this repeatedly requires taste & vision
I love this breakdown of common user research terms from Reforge Every PM should take their User Insights for Product Decisions program
The company behind @cursor_ai published their prompt design library on GitHub
Arvind Kejriwal had a way better economic policy than Sheila Dikshit. Under AAP Govt, Debt is now nearly nil. He paid off all the loans taken by previous BJP and Congress Govts. This is what India needs...!!!
A much needed explainer of life without Aadhar featuring @jackerhack helped my mom understand why I'm Adhaarless. This is the kind of stuff that makes it worth buying a newspaper @DeccanHerald Pls maintain these high standards instead of succumbing to political advertorials.
I did the back-of-the-envelop math on this 👇: at current growth rates, with India growing roughly 2% faster than China, (and assuming this is somehow maintained all the way until the end of the century), India's economy won't even catch up with China's by 2100, it'd still be 20%…
@awilkinson Yup! They have a cookbook example exactly for this (It’s technically not training, instead searches for relevant snippets and the uses that info answer, RAG) Basically you setup an action that searches Google drive via the api:
I don't think people understand how powerful these writing tricks are. Pick any 3 tricks to kickstart your writing from the list: "X argues that..." → Introduce ideas "In other words..." → Clarify concepts "X is right that... However..." → Build on others' work Useful stuff
Collective experience over time dynamically will help you more in real life than all the papers in Psychology and Economics. #Velsig
@JennMGreenberg Tim Mackie from Bible Project talks about these characters as filling a category of the anointed one and failing, over and over again. Their failure is meant to make us long for the true Annointe One, who does not fail and fulfills the role the way it is meant to be.
Francis Ford Coppola on taking the risk of selling his winery to self-finance the ~$120m budget for Megalopolis: “I never cared about money. In the end there are so many people when they die that say, ‘I wish I had done this, I wish I had done that’. But when I die I’m gonna…
Clearest path to $10M liquid
No author has shaped my worldview more than Nassim Taleb (@nntaleb). I stumbled on The Black Swan eight years ago, then inhaled the rest of the Incerto. I've increasingly come to appreciate the importance of its ideas to prolonging the human story. Was an honour to speak with…