Jason Cohen: Metrics that cannot even be measured in retrospect. Here’s some common examples so you can train your pattern-matching engine, and see how to navigate the conversations. (more)

Past and present reads. Bolded-titles were faves. See esp. Greatest Books (more)

software thinking tools, incl Digital Garden, ThinkingSpace, NoteTaking, PIM, PKM, ToDoList, Collaboration Ware (more)

Dev who's 10x faster (velocity) than anyone else? Company changing a lot (Think Big)? (For the latter, I often use 4x as a framing because 2x feels incrementally-reachable, and 10x feels too pie-in-the-sky.)

key Start Up success-requirement from Marc Andreessen - getting the right Fit between product and Market Segment - 2007-07-27-AndreessenMarketIsKeyForStartup - establishes viability/scalability of your Business Model? (more)

April Dunford: When Product Market Fit Does Not Equal Growth. (Conference: SaaStock 2019.) Fundamentally, as startups, we all want to grow, so we’re all looking for a pathway to scalable, repeatable sales. But at the same time, we know that scaling too soon doesn’t work. In fact, sometimes it can be downright dangerous. (more)

aka Unique Value Proposition, see also Positioning

TeamWiki WikiEngine from Atlassian http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/ (more)

Martin Cagan: Alternatives To Product Managers. I doubt anyone is surprised to learn that many people have been asking me about Brian Chesky’s recent comments. ((2023-11-14) Brian Chesky's New Playbook) (more)

see mediocrity, premium mediocre

There are 3 Games of Product Management, and each of these has variations based on the context. (more)

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head of the Product Management function. aka CPO... or, in a large company with truly different Products, the product-head for each Product will be considered a Product Leader, with team-specific Product Managers reporting to him. (more)

Martin Cagan: Meaningful Transformation: adopting techniques such as Agile methods for delivery (agile software development) may be necessary, but they are nowhere near sufficient. (more)

"What looks like a Crisis is often simply the end of an Illusion." (theater) -Jerry Weinberg (Rhonda’s First Revelation: It May Look Like a Crisis, But It’s Only the End of An Illusion.) - link (more)

Live Performance en-actment (Drama, Comedy, Tragedy, etc.). Also: Empty Gesture, as in Security Theater (signalling, ritual, Cargo Cult, illusion of control). https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Abillseitz%20*theater&src=typed_query&f=live. Also: Bullshit. (more)

Being consistent. Being "internally tuned", like a laser. (more)

one of the founders of Apple Computer, and key sponsor of the Apple Macintosh. (You Are Not Steve Jobs.) (more)

Lenny Rachitsky: Brian Chesky's new playbook. Today my guest is Brian Chesky. Brian is the CEO and co-founder of Airbnb. I was very lucky to get to work with Brian for many years, and my sense is if you ask people who they consider the most inspiring tech or business leaders today, Brian would be right near the top of that list. (more)

hmm, is this expert product management pattern-matching? intuition? judgment? fingertip-feeling? (more)