🌱 5 new insights for product builders (#77)
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me
- Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started.
- Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finished. Long-term orientation is in short supply; try not to worry about what people think in the short t
Sam Altman • What I Wish Someone Had Told Me
"I'm in a feature factory. I hate my job."
Spoiler alert: You shouldn't just immediately try to transform the company.
That a recipe for disappointment at best, and getting exited at worst.
Instead, figure out which of these 3 approaches is best for you:___LINEBR... See more
Act from Instinct and Build to Learn
Many yearn for neat narratives, perfect prototypes, or bulletproof decks that placate stakeholders. But in this quest for tidy consensus, the work can stagnate, spinning its gears in the muck of groupthink and subtle fear. Forward progress is made when you trust the raw feeling that something is worth trying and ... See more
Many yearn for neat narratives, perfect prototypes, or bulletproof decks that placate stakeholders. But in this quest for tidy consensus, the work can stagnate, spinning its gears in the muck of groupthink and subtle fear. Forward progress is made when you trust the raw feeling that something is worth trying and ... See more