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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Signature Economies

Andy Tudhope sign.kernel.community

Ownership Economy and Ethereum

a very important design choice of the Ethereum blockchain: the concept of Account (the object holding your tokens) and the concept of Signer (the object authorized to move these tokens) are basically the same thing!

Julien Niset • Part I: WTF is Account Abstraction

In this guide, I want to go very deep on all the experiences, resume tips and interview strategies you’ll need to get an Associate Product Manager role.

Substack • The Associate Product Manager Playbook

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

Good Product Managers, Great Product Managers

Shreyas Doshi linkedin.com

GTM (go to market strategy) and

As head of marketing at Gusto I shifted us from "growth at all costs" to profitable growth. ARR grew 100x in 4 yrs while CAC <12 mos. Now every company is asked to do the same. I shared how we did it in a recent talk to @ycombinator & @sequoia... See more

Jaleh Rezaei twitter.com

marketing and GTM (go to market strategy)

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

26: distinguish good strategy vs meh strategyGood: all about connecting the dots to get people from a to bIf you are given a metric, you have to get every artifact you have and match it to that goal.

Pay close attention to assumptions you are making unknowingly- look for confusion in people when you explain

33: when you start at a new company and... 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