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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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

21: strategy- Vision: your inspiring picture of what everything looks likeStrategic framework: market we are going after, what success looks like and our big bets to win mktbreaking down the problem to understand who you are going after and what it takes to win themRoadmap:Work backwards from vision. What are we doing to get there (not a... See more

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

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

Soulbinding Like a State

Subconscious subconscious.substack.com

Community Design and

The Beautiful Mess | John Cutler | Substack

cutlefish.substack.com

Product strategy and product

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.

Derek Thompson • A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems

Introducing The North Star Playbook

Amplitude amplitude.com

Startup Growth and

Beyond Agile (3/52): A How-To Guide on Technical Program Management for Product Managers (Part 1)

Aadil Maan buildingromes.substack.com

Workplace Collaboration and Productivity Tools and

Front-running is a predatory market behavior that arises due to information asymmetries created by different actors accessing privileged information. Front-running is one of the ways to access MEV, and selling clients' orders is equivalent to the public Ethereum mempool.

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

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

Gordon Brander • Soulbinding Like a State

Soulbinding Like a State

The Beautiful Mess | John Cutler | Substack

Derek Thompson • A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems

Introducing The North Star Playbook

Beyond Agile (3/52): A How-To Guide on Technical Program Management for Product Managers (Part 1)

Gonzalo Hirsch • Enter the MEV Void: the Rise of Flashbots