Gaia Soykok

play-to-win - how to strategy really works - book recommendation

Distinction was drawn among polymaths : passive serial and clustered. Huxley, Borges andWells areclaassifued as passive polymaths,

Positioning: How your product is the best in the world delivering some value that well-defined companies care a lot about. How are you different? what value you can deliver that no one in the market can. And what market you are in?

Coinbase is a recommendation company Gokul recommends for working in. ( This has not aged well :D)

There are no managers to parent you into the work, and there are fewer influencers, and there are fewer followers. All that is left are nodes in a decentralised way where each node has to negotiate, communicate, and harmonise.

Polymaths have been called amateurs, dilettantes or even charlatans

It is ok if your grandmother does not understand it. Does your buyer understand? Unless you are building for grandma, useless.

I could not be a top 10% engineer so I choose the product :D. Also, I enjoyed customer meetings more and their needs.

you can design think the best collaborator experience for a group of people at a point in time, and there will still be people who will be left behind. Whenever one more person joins everything changes, and your design might not be relevant anymore.