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What the product job actually is
It’s been a year since I formally took on the CPO role, and about a decade building products before that, so I wanted to share a few reflections.
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You can’t A/B test your way to PMF
There is a quote by the founder of Notion about building new products that I’ve found myself coming back to:
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The path to engineered luck
For years, I’ve tried to rationalize luck—to see if it’s something I could attract or engineer. In tech, people believe luck can be engineered. Just…
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The ascending world
The ascending world: forward-looking, expecting next year to be better by design, not by chance.
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50 things I know #2
Last year, I published 50 Things I Know—lessons I’ve picked up over time. More notes to myself than advice for others. Since then, I’ve kept collecting…
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Sell something people want
These days, I spend most of my time building new products, but there was a stretch where go-to-market (GTM) was all I thought about.
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Signal, noise, and clarity
Exceptional input, exceptional output
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The gravity of hubs
If you study history, the pattern becomes obvious. The top people of any generation, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, often knew each other…
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Addicted to the Maze
The startup maze is addictive because it offers emotional rewards you can’t get in safer environments. It satisfies something primal, a need to struggle…
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The Ascending World
The Ascending World
This is my personal blog, here I share thoughts on mindset, technology, progress, and the ascending world (amongst other things).
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