Simon Joliveau Breney
@simonjb
Simon Joliveau Breney
Remember, plans always get more complicated once they're put into practice — never less.
New priorities emerge, market forces change, and everything takes longer than you expect. Your plan needs focus — likely more focus than you might feel comfortable with.
Lenny Rachitsky • The Secret to a Great Planning Process - Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite
The desktop user interface is a mainstay of computing. Bread and butter, if you will. A pointer, icons, windows, menus and buttons, controlled using a keyboard and a mouse. Ingenious simplicity.
For almost half a century now, we haven't really managed to come up with something better, and that's not for lack of trying. This fact seems to annoy a lot
... See moredatagubbe.se • Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design
“Good process serves you so you can serve customers. But if you’re not watchful, the process can become the thing. This can happen very easily in large organizations. The process becomes the proxy for the result you want.” - Jeff Bezos, 2016 Letter To Shareholders
Simon Joliveau • Fwd: 10 Sources of Waste in Product Management
If you try to improve something by 10%, you can almost always solve the problem with brute force and caffeine.
Jasper Polak • My Best Trick to Reduce Delivery Time
It’s important to challenge yourself and your peers to cut even the good ideas if they aren’t perishable (can be done later), strategic (don’t directly support this plan’s strategy), or differentiating (set you apart from your competition). Instead, put those resources against the top priorities.
review.firstround.com • The Secret to a Great Planning Process - Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite
When something isn’t getting done, it’s because the person a) doesn’t have the time b) doesn’t have the skill or c) has some sort of psychological block. The third case is surprisingly common. After a few slips with someone I trusted, I’d just ask directly. “I noticed this work isn’t being pushed forward at the rate I expected or at the quality you
... See moreSam Gerstenzang • Operating well – what I learned at Stripe
We, as humans, sometimes receive streams of tokens and produce tokens in response, forming words, sentences, lines of code ... but always with the ability to peek outside the stream and check in with ground-floor reality. We pause and consider: does this word really stand for the thing I intend it to stand for? Does this sentence capture the real... See more