Tom So

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Deep into web3 social, bit of a generalist In the crypto rabbit hole (as I should). Also super into startups, everything social and community building. I usually read on product management and career development - I add engineering sprinkles to the mix bc why not

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In the insightful (and accessible) book Design for How People Learn, Julie Dirksen covers five "gaps" that inhibit learning (and applying) something new:Knowledge GapSkills Gap (Knowledge + Practice)Motivation GapHabit GapEnvironment Gap

The Beautiful Mess • TBM 44/52: Making Optional Product Practices Stick

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8: shutting others ideas down va understanding the problem although the solution might not be the best

Lenny Rachitsky • Jackie Bavaro on getting better at product strategy, what exactly is strategy, PM pitfalls to avoid, advancing your career, getting into management, and much more

One pagers are great way to drive decisions. Here’s an effective one pager format: 1. Objective of document 2. Background of Problem Statement 3. Recommendation / Way Forward 4. Reasoning behind recommendation 5. Next Steps Stick to... See more

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Product management

A natural forest is illegible. A tangle of plants. This is inconvenient from the standpoint of harvesting lumber. How do you quantify yield? Can you even make a meaningful map of this mess? Much easier to clear the forest and plant a legible “scientific” forest. Uniform rows of trees that produce good lumber. Now we can count the trees, make a map,... See more

Gordon Brander • Soulbinding Like a State

Good Product Managers, Great Product Managers

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GTM (go to market strategy) and

High-level insight

Most companies do not operate in ways they realize their vision by continuously aligning business goals with customers' needs and pain points. Product teams need to be aligned on business objectives and be allowed to operate at an initiative level to impact those objectives.

Author describes different processes to set product team... See more

Melissa Perri • Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

When it comes to recognizing, classifying, and verifying identity on-chain, I see it being approached from two angles:1. The puppet view: identity-bearing agents are represented by explicit on-chain behavior sets.2. The puppeteer view: identity-bearing agents are represented by the inferred association of certain on-chain behaviors to off-chain... See more

Mirror • Mapping the web3 Identity Landscape

Signature Economies

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Ownership Economy and Ethereum

The FDA has continually slow-walked the approval of rapid tests for development. The Trump administration was utterly uninterested in any COVID policy outside the vaccines.