Simon Joliveau Breney
@simonjb
Simon Joliveau Breney
@simonjb
The “About Me/Us” section above is externally facing. Guiding principles on the other hand are internal and represent the core values and beliefs that provide a framework for reacting and making product decisions regardless of the situation. It ensures you and your team all react in a manner that is favorable to the success of your products. What
... See moreRemember, 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.

I used to love open worlds for, in a nutshell, being virtual environments vast enough to get thoroughly lost in with no guarantee of what I'd find. They were enveloping mysteries, tantalising horizons. Nowadays, however, I regard open worlds as chores, because they are designed so insistently, even desperately, around recurring activities and
... See moreYou should schedule at least one 30-minute weekly meeting with everyone working on the project.
The goal of this meeting is to (1) be a backstop for any coordination that needs to happen and didn’t happen asynchronously; (2) be an efficient way to create common knowledge of goals, updates, etc.; (3) help you track whether things are going well.
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... See moreDuhigg argues for three broad types of conversations: practical (What are we going to do?), emotional (How do we feel about it?), and identity (Who are we?), and that attempts to dialogue often derail when people don’t successfully synchronize this.