Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
someone—usually someone behind the scenes, working tirelessly—who led the product team to combine technology and design to solve real customer problems in a way that met the needs of the business.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
The job
Jason Fried • Remote: Office Not Required
For fifty years after the turn of the century, shipbuilders and shipping companies worked hard both to make ships faster and to lower their fuel consumption. Even so, the more successful they were in boosting speed and trimming their fuel needs, the worse the economics of ocean freighters became. By 1950 or so, the ocean freighter was dying, if not
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Trust the process
Freddie • 21 cards
Mission statement impossible
David Heinemeier Hansson • Rework
An early lesson I learned in my career was that whenever a large organization attempts to do anything, it always comes down to a single person who can delay the entire project.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
If you want to know the truth about what you’ve built, you have to ship it. You can test, you can brainstorm, you can argue, you can survey, but only shipping will tell you whether you’re going to sink or swim.