I Prefer Working in “Lowercase P product teams"
When speaking, sometimes all you need to communicate properly is tell the listener if a word you are using is a proper noun or not.
When speaking, sometimes all you need to communicate properly is tell the listener if a word you are using is a proper noun or not.
I loved this reminder from Kyle to hang around at the end of each meeting just in case someone has a question for just you.
I realized my reliance on podcasts isn’t just to learn and satiate my constant curiosity. It’s also an opportunity to practice focus.
The scenario: You’re presenting and your information, or at least its framing, is not quite what they had in mind.
Sometimes words are confusing jargon, sometimes they are shared language that improves understanding of complex topics.
Just when some people got comfortable paying a subscription for a software, here we are in the new newsletter subscription economy.
Mike Schmidt has a great primer to understand your default mode and how to question why you do the things you do.
Instead of always accepting someone’s answer or a team’s decision, ask them why.
I look for software that isn’t “death by a thousand cuts”. Small details matter, especially when these small annoyances add up by the...
"There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says…"
Ben on Twitter supporting folks on their struggles with education:
I can do it over, over, over again. Sometimes I flip pages for no reason as a form of fidgeting or to experience more of the sensation...
I wish I read this in my early twenties.
Seth Godin on his blog: If you want to have an argument, to raise tempers or to distract, the easiest thing to do is start bringing up...