Barun Pandey

There’s so much content flying at us these days, it’s hard to separate the “this sounds smart!” from the “this is genuinely correct, helpful, and timeless.” Below are seven essays that have had the most impact on my product career—that I find myself quoting from, sharing with people, and coming back to most often, even though most are decades old... See more

Everybody you admire, found their ‘thing’. 

Michael Phelps has a weird body. Double jointed elbows, a torso 8 inches too long, and half the lactic acid production as a normal human. 

The dudes built like a flying fish. So he found his thing, swimming. 

Joe Rogan liked to get high, have funny conversations with his friends about everything from fightin... See more

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Entrepreneurship is just problem solving:

1. Find a problem you have that you'd pay money to be free of

2. Figure out a solution to this problem that you can deliver for a reasonable price

3. Determine where people that have that problem hang out and tell them about it (repeatedly)

4. Think about delivering this product or service as a machine - break ... See more

In marketing: all positioning is counter-positioning.

Every other electric car: fancy, expensive, complex.

Slate: old school, affordable, simple.

Instead of being last place in the fancy electric car market, they’re now first place in the simple, fun electric truck market.

As Kevin Kelly says: “Don’t aim to be the best, be the only”.

Nintendo is the be... See more