Gaia Soykok

Gokul thinks if you want to hire best-of-class PMs, go to best-of-class companies and hire from them rather than a person.

advise to founders 1- planning early stage - weekly plan , quarter plan then annual 2- simple tools - no complexity 3- Company and product strategy are the same in the early stage. only once you are big there are many products and strategies.

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

When to hire a product manager? Someone has to play the role of product manager. Can be the founder. If not adequate and solid, engineering is too expensive to waste and without a solid product presence, you waste money.

self determination theory - DEci and and Ryan people have three innate psychological needs : autonomy relatedness and competence, When they have that they feel motivated happy and productive,

DAOs are DAO contributorsRadical participation if you are thinking there is a value, you should do it. A lot of proposals are not made, it makes a big blockade. We need to enable radical participation.

Julie advises not to write for your audience, write for you and find the angle that works for you.

Anyone reading the literature on this subject published 20 years ago would find that the articles look almost identical to those published today.” That assessment, which could have been written this morning, was actually offered in 1975. In nearly forty years, the thinking hasn’t changed.

effort made by the meditator to understand right nature of psycho-physical phenomena taking place in his/her own body (Sayadaw, n.d: 138). The insight meditation appears to be a kind of detector of one’s nature that “shows us who and what we are, and what we can become.