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

Aditya Reddy sapphireventures.com

Startup Finance and CFO Tools

The importance of deep focus work in early startups specially for engineers

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

Investors advising early-stage teams should avoid pushing for growth ahead of product/market fit. As an industry, we all know that this ends in disaster, yet the pressure for premature growth is still all too common. Startups need time and space to find their fit and launch the right way.

firstround.com • How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product Market Fit

No one can see past a few months in the future for any software development project. That was the major failure of the waterfall approach. Roadmaps are at best North Star visions of where a company should head towards.

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

The size and sophistication of these models make it impossible to fully understand how they make predictions. They have billions of weights that interact in subtle ways to make a final prediction; looking at them is like hoping to understand psychology by examining individual brain cells. Even in academic settings with well-established models, the... See more

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

A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems

Derek Thompson theatlantic.com

Progress Studies and

One of the biggest shifts in Web 3 is the extraction of your identity/reputation out of the application layer into the user layer.

Substack • Issue #75: Hey...Do You Know Who I Am!?

The Superhuman Product/Market Fit Engine

coda.io

High Performance Lifestyle and

1/There is a general misconception that DeSoc is intended to make visible your social graph in a public panopticon way. A "God's eye view" is not the goal. In fact, no two people should have the same partial view.

name twitter.com

DeSOC (decentralised Society) and