Peter Swanson
@borborygmus
Peter Swanson
Deciding to fix a big dent in a car isn’t perplexing. It’s an easy choice. There’s a huge dent, get it fixed.
It’s the little dents that are a dilemma.
But not fixing little dents means that pretty soon, we’re driving a car that we’re not happy with. Either that, or we define happiness as, “okay with little dents.”
Fixing little dents is a
... See more- Include your team’s mission and/or vision in every strategy document.In kick-off meetings, find opportunities to remind the team how this random project enables the team/company to come closer to its mission.At the top of your roadmap documents, include your team Vision or Mission.
from 14 Habits of Highly Effective Product Managers by Lenny Rachitsky
- “Vision is the bottleneck of talent.
Most talent is wasted because people do not clearly know what they want. It’s not a lack of effort, but a lack of direction.
There are many capable people in the world, but relatively few that focus on what matters.”from 3-2-1: On patience, vision, and emphasizing joy by James Clear
“Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all.”
― Robert M. Pirsig
- The problem you solve for customers is increasingly one they can’t even articulate for themselves . The ones that are easy to understand have already been built and funded over the last 20 years. Building something of true excellence will require a hungrier engagement with the world
from Want to Build? Technical Excellence Won’t Be Enough. by Evan Armstrong
“You can’t talk butterfly language with caterpillar people.”
Trish Deseine
"I don't need time. What I need is a deadline." — Duke Ellington
