Tom So

@tomso

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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From Product Manager to Product Leader

Substack blog.mindthebeet.com

Hiring Advice and

I’m talking about using in-product levers to grow, in place of or in conjunction with external marketing and sales channels. When people can try your product for free, they experience the value of your product before making the decision to pay. This turns more people into happy users, creating more opportunity for them to tell their friends, who in... See more

Reforge • Product Driven Growth: The New Frontier of Growth — Reforge

BA 26/52: In Pursuit of the Perfect Project Plan

Aadil Maan buildingromes.substack.com

Developer Tools and

As finance has started to take on more responsibility and influence within organizations, the technology enabling CFOs and finance teams has lagged. Most finance workflows, such as annual planning, quarterly actuals reporting and reconciliations, tend to be managed within disconnected spreadsheets with no automation or collaboration capabilities.

Jane Lee • Rise of the Next-Gen CFO: The Evolution of Finance’s Role and Tech Stack

Survey design: 4 effective principles | Stripe

Stripe stripe.com

product design and

Top down vs Bottom up approach in company decision making and autonomy: No extreme is good, there's just different flavors of it

Treating your org as a product, use new hires as testing of the operating ways and have them provide candid feedback

Spotify • Leading Async Engineering Teams & Building Hardware with Andrew Conner from Levels

Migrations Done Well: Part 1

Gergely Orosz newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com

Engineering Management

How Recommendation Algorithms Actually Work | Future - https://future.com/forget-open-source-algorithms-focus-on-experiments-instead

future.com future.com

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why curation... and

Web3 identity solutions center around user-centric ownership models. They also prioritize portability, with solutions promising a foundational identity layer that enables inherent information transferability, rather than retroactively fitted portability solutions as in web2.