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Impact over refinement

When building something, focus on truly creating an impact before releasing and refining it.

Then, consider focusing on other impactful work before refining your prior releases.

Here is a simple test to see if you're building something impactful: Can you write a blog post about what you're releasing and how it will change your... See more

The benefit of Wikipedia’s page-based organization is that there’s little ambiguity about where to find information about a topic. Likewise, TokenPage offers owners a strong power: determining the canonical knowledge of a topic.

I love that the word dedicate has two meanings— first, it means to make something holy; second, it means to stick at something for a long time. I don’t think this is a coincidence: We do something holy when we choose to commit to something. And, in the most dedicated people I have met here, I have witnessed how that pursuit of holiness comes with a... See more

Give someone enough time to process what they’re reading, and they’re more likely to believe the truth… But time is an increasingly rare commodity.

Over the past dozen years I have had hundreds of pastoral conversations, mostly with young men, about the challenges of family life. They tell me it’s exhausting, that there’s no more free time, that they’re having a hard time setting aside their dreams and wishes, that kids can be unbearably frustrating. I get it. They tell me that the marriage

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Everything you do as a product manager is done through writing, speaking, and meetings. As Boz puts it, “communication is the job.” You can never be too good at this, and it’s very difficult to over-communicate.