Peter Hagen
@peter
Curious about better reading, incentives / game design, bootstrapping, and too much more. Hopeful that Sublime will be a better Twitter for ideas.
lindylearn.ioPeter Hagen
There is no point to having a large backlog because the bigger the backlog, the higher the unvalidated assumptions, and the lower the chance that it creates any customer value. I have made too many mistakes assuming that something is valuable, when nobody cares about it. A large backlog should be looked at with an extremely high degree of... See more
Zarar Siddiqi • Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often you talk to customers
A walk-n-talk works like this: gather 5-10 curious, kind, generous, patient, inspiring people and set a walking course through the countryside for a week, plus or minus a day or two. A week works well because it may take a day or two or three for people to open up, for the so-called “situational extroverts” to fully emerge from their shells, for... See more
Craig Mod • How to Walk and Talk
Stop trying to make social networks succeed, stop dreaming of a universal network. Instead, invest in your own communities. Help them make long-term, custom and sustainable solutions. Try to achieve small and local successes instead of pursuing an imaginary universal one. It will make you happier.
It will make all of us happier.
It will make all of us happier.
Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed
Social Media and
Orders taken, drinks in hand, everyone in place, the topic is then discussed. If a few people begin to drift off-topic be vigilant, pull them back in. It’s not only a single topic but also a single conversation. Everyone listens to everyone. Everyone who wants to speak, speaks. Foster a self-awareness of convo-monopolization.
Craig Mod • How to Walk and Talk
When you think about search, you think about finding useful results. As
Ed Zitron has documented
, when today's executives think about search, they think about making money from search. Whether you find what you're looking for has become incidental at best.
Ed Zitron has documented
, when today's executives think about search, they think about making money from search. Whether you find what you're looking for has become incidental at best.
Ashley Belanger • Email Microsoft didn’t want seen reveals rushed decision to invest in OpenAI
What you "need" to do is a dangerous trigger word. Almost always the perceived need is based on a particular understanding of trade-offs that could be misguided. One engineer's need to recover some technical debt (while noble, of course) might be the opposite for CEO, who might be seeing a bigger picture existential need to the business. A thing is... See more
Coleman McCormick • Hard Edges, Soft Middle
No matter how many people come over for dinner, you’re only going to be able to engage with a few.
And no matter how big the crowd in the arena, the musicians can only see the faces of a few hundred.
An investor can only be engaged and smart about a very small number of companies.
And it doesn’t matter how many students are in the class, the teacher
... See moreSeth Godin • The natural size
“[Y]ou can dislike parts of a game. You can hate on a game entirely,” Pagliarulo wrote several messages later. “But don’t fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is (unless it’s somehow documented and verified), or how it got to be that way (good or bad). Chances are, unless you’ve made a game yourself, you don’t know who made... See more