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Huge pivots is more common than we think in successful companies.
Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)

Discovering B2B Companies that Successfully Pivoted

1min
AI Key Takeaways
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The goal is to understand impact, measurement is just the proxy
#175: Shreyas Doshi: Better Teams, Better Products

The Role of Company Leadership in Solving Tricky Problems

1min
AI Key Takeaways
  • The solutions to these problems depend on company leadership
  • Leadership understanding these ideas and principles is crucial
  • Measurement should only be a proxy for the impact made
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Storytelling with Nancy Duarte: How to craft compelling presentations and tell a story that sticks

Tips for Effective Storytelling in Presentations

1min
AI Key Takeaways
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#technology #productivity #product this same thinking is applicable to frameworks and ways of working from big tech
#164 Ravi Gupta: The Realities of Success

Why mimicking Google's processes won't guarantee success

44sec
AI Key Takeaways
  • Using Google's processes and leveling system is not the reason for their success.
  • Google's success is due to their essential product and ability to charge a toll for its use.
  • Correlation versus causation is often misused in suggesting things.
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#wisdom #creativity #learning #memory
#291 — Where is Happiness?

Fluid vs Crystallized Intelligence?

5min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Fluid and crystallized intelligence are two different types of intelligence, and the difference between them is that fluid intelligence gets better through your twenties and thirties, while crystallized intelligence stays high in your seventies and eighties.
  • The best way to use your fluid intelligence is to do things that reload on it, like being a poet or historian, while using your crystallized intelligence to learn new things and teach them.
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Optimising #productivity should have it’s own goal and outcome. Optimising for nothing is potentially why we end up procrastinating with new tools.
Ep. 240: Disciplined Laziness

Autonomy as an outcome of a productivity focused life (vice optimization)

4min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Productivity can be aimed at achieving a number of different goals, including but not limited to optimization, focusing on a single important thing, and maintaining financial stability.
  • It is important to have a productivity system in place in order to achieve these goals.
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Important concept for #product people working on SaaS or Platform type products
Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Canva, Reddit, Grubhub)

The Different Types of SaaS Marketplaces

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • A marketplace is a business model that is focused on driving demand to supply.
  • There are different types of marketplaces, and some require more selection than others.
  • The main value proposition of a marketplace is that it will bring extra business to the supplier.
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You need to trust your gut. Most products don’t have infinite resources to completely validate every assumption #product #principles
Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Canva, Reddit, Grubhub)

The Importance of Process

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • There is a focus on the right way of doing product management at Event Bright, which has led to a lack of risktaking and a lack of innovation.
  • The author feels partially responsible for this, as they have created frameworks that are tools, rather than coloring books to stay inside the lines.
  • The author has started to change this by hiring more earlycareer product managers, which is helping to bring innovation back to the company.
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#startups #leadership
Daniel Ek - Enabling Creators Everywhere - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 242]

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek’s Decision Making Framework

5min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Decision making is an important skill to hone.
  • Reducing the number of variables in a problem can make it easier to solve.
  • Learning different frameworks to help with decision making is a good way to improve.
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GUEST SERIES | Dr. Andy Galpin: Optimal Nutrition & Supplementation for Fitness

The Importance of Sleep

4min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Wearable trackers are getting better at detecting sleep disorders, but they are not accurate enough to meet the FDA threshold for diagnosis.
  • There are four factors that are looked at when diagnosing sleep disorders: biology, environmental, psychological, and sleep pathology.
  • The main factor that determines how someone sleeps is their physiology. If there is something going on with their biology, then the environmental and psychological factors will also need to be looked at. If there is a psychological issue, then the environmental and psychological factors will need to be looked at along with sleep pathology.
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#health #habits
GUEST SERIES | Dr. Andy Galpin: Optimal Nutrition & Supplementation for Fitness

The Importance of Symptom Management

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Symptom management is necessary in order to find better foundational habits, but it is not the only thing that needs to be addressed.
  • If a person is only managing symptoms, they are missing the signal that something else is wrong.
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Good suggestion to limit your exposure to emails, calendar and task list #productivity
Cal Newport: Lifestyle Design, Slow Productivity and Contrarian Writing

Task Freeze - On the Edge of Overwhelm

36sec
AI Key Takeaways
  • Going back and forth between email can be psychologically crushing because the planning motivational center of the brain can't make plans for 15 things at the same time.
  • There is a benefit to using a pullbased methodology, where you only work on one task at a time.
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