Topic
planning
- Forget estimates, start with appetite
In the latest issue of Building Blocks, I dove into Shape Up and its idea of setting the appetite for a project. Fundamentally, appetite inverts the question we begin with when planning a project. Instead of starting…
- How I Plan My Week with Roam
For years Todoist was my tool of choice for task management. When Roam came on the scene for me earlier this year, I'd seen pretty compelling methods from the #roamcult for how to manage todos inside of Roam with its…
- The Idea-to-Reality Production Stack
A great overview of mental models, thinking approaches, and techniques to, as the piece says, go from "idea to reality."
- Don’t Let the Backlog Drive Your Product
As we’ve started to adopt a process similar to Basecamp’s, we’ve been revisiting how we think about “backlogs” — the list of ideas and various requests we could work on in the product roadmap. I liked this piece from…
- Weekend Reading: Attention, Hill Climbing, and Enforcing Culture
🧠To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight For a long time, because attention seemed so intricately tied up with consciousness and other complex functions, scientists assumed that it was first and fo…
- Right-sizing and Product Scoping
In product teams you’re continually faced with the challenge of scoping. When you build something directly for a customer, for a fee (consulting), the scoping process is explicit and has built-in constraints — custome…