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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Transitioning a career to think more about purpose is a typical evolution many people find mid-career (or at least it was for me). You could define mid-life as the transition to deeper purpose – society is clear that you should establish your mastery of something in your 20’s and 30s; it’s less clear what to do with it in your 40’s and 50’s (hence... See more

adam harmetz • Finding Purpose in Tech Careers: The Explorer, the Journeyman, and the Healer

Finding Purpose in Tech Careers: The Explorer, the Journeyman, and the Healer

Adam Harmetz blog.mindthebeet.com

Jobs of the Future and

One of the prime directives of Technical Program Managers, especially modern TPMing, is stakeholder management. There are so many moving parts, people, personalities that part of Technical Program Management is to ensure the teams remain collaborative, constantly fed up to date information, giving their voices importance and as projects progress... See more

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

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

A startup’s data room is key for raising venture capital. But many founders waste time compiling data investors don’t want or need. From @venturetwins, a 🧵 on what founders need to know, including specific data investors want to see, info to leave out, and traps to avoid.👇

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Data and

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

The State of Frontend in 2022

Gergely Orosz newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com

Building software and

From Product Manager to Product Leader

Substack blog.mindthebeet.com

Hiring Advice and

The rise of Flashbots has sprouted an interest in MEV among the entire Web3 ecosystem. Competitors have appeared in Ethereum, such as Manifold , which competes with Flashbots in the block-building space with non-compliant OFAC blocks.