Topic
process
- Process vs. Practice
In product development, you can orient a team toward process or practice. Process is about repeatability, scalability, efficiency, execution. Practice is about creativity, inventiveness, searching for solutions. Choos…
- Audiobooks and Engagement
Recently Nat Eliason started a thread on the subject of audiobooks, and how much lower comprehension and retention is when listening versus reading: Kinda like how it's hard to go back to reading after watching more T…
- Weekend Reading: Invading Markets, Sleep Deprivation, and the Observer Effect
🎖️ Commandos, Infantry, and Police Jeff Atwood on Robert X. Cringely's descriptions of three groups of people you need to "attack a market": Whether invading countries or markets, the first wave of troops to see batt…
- 6am Writing
With the lockdown, the kids always at home, and no transitions between personal life and work, I've been thinking about how to harness the morning time for thinking more effectively. My most productive hours are early…
- Tyler Cowen on Practice
Tyler Cowen is one of the most prolific people out there. His batting average on producing high-quality content is unreal. Just following his blog, podcast, and Twitter makes one wonder how he also has time for so muc…
- Running in Circles
Basecamp's Ryan Singer articulates well the struggles with adopting and truly getting value out of an agile workflow. The core problem most teams face isn't that they're bad at estimating time to completion, it's that…