If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.

1. Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a goo

Jim Simons: "I’m not an extremely fast thinker myself; I just work hard."

That was all I needed to do—work hard, not fast. A paper I published in '68 took me five years. But it has had 1,850 citations. For a math paper, that’s an awful lot.

There’s too much emphasis on a person’s being able to answer questions quickly."

"They subscribe to your consciousness. So many “experts” will tell you to write for your reader. I think that’s BS. I write for me. And when people enjoy it, it’s a rewarding bonus. I love connecting with my readers, but I am not altering my words for them. I am not writing the things that I think will go viral or resonate with the mainstream.”

-som

manage your energy > manage your time

H/t Jim Loehr

Boy, I hurried... I hurried for a long time. I'm sorry I did. All the time you're hurrying, you're not really as aware as you should be. You're trying to make things happen instead of just letting it happen. You follow me?

-Bob Dylan

I've ever seen so much paranoia in technology about missing out on The Next Big Thing as with AI. Companies seem less excited about the prospects than they are petrified that its going to kill them. Maybe that fear is justified, maybe it's not, but what's incontestable is the kind of desperation it's leading to.

-DHH

Nothing matters if you're not proud of it.

The Head of Design At Airbnb printed out 3 questions for designers at Airbnb to answer:

1) Does it work?

2) Does it scale?

3) Are you proud of it?

If the answer to #3 isn’t a resounding “yes” then they won’t ship (even if metrics suggest you should)

great strategy / product strategy / roadmap planning principles here

Underrated: people who make you believe that anything is possible.

walking the Camino de Santiago