Hi All,
Another week!. Can you believe it is February! We are a month into the year! How many of you made (and are still sticking) to your resolutions? This week was a slew of results from so many companies but the one I can’t wait for is Uber .. coming up on Feb 6th. Massacre or not? Time will tell.. Until then ..Here are this week’s reads, enjoy!
Bob Moesta on Jobs-to-be-Done | Inside Intercom : For those of you who know me, you know I am a fan of the JTBD framework. The principle of thinking through the lense where your product is hired for a “job” is extremely useful in framing the problem you are trying to solve. Bob Moesta breaks this down in the “big and little” hires for your product.
How much of the average mobile app design is text? 36% : While generally not a proponent of such research, the findings were somewhat interesting.
Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk? : The age old question with some interesting insights and history
Managing Your Growth Team's Portfolio: A Step-by-Step Guide
: Good insights from John Egan on how to structure your growth team portfolio. How to divide up experimentation at various stages and I think this is relevant for any sized company
The Philosophy of Food Project : As someone who truly sees food in multiple different angles, this article on the philosophy of food was interesting. What lens do you use when you eat? Is food sustenance only? Social? A moral responsibility to keep your body healthy? All of them? Either way, the core question is why has America’s food system broken so badly? Capitilistic greed? People who don’t understand food and nutrition? Lack of choice? Busy?
Ship outcomes, not just features, with the Product Impact Framework | Inside Intercom : Using a product impact framework to ship outcomes and not features.
How does one become a master? : Mastery: The Complete Guide to Achieving Greatness
“Mastery is not about perfection. It’s about a process, a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for as long as he or she lives.”
Exec level clients should not just provide prioritization but also product strategy. The WHY should we go in a specific direction, not asking the CEO for that: Prioritization Shouldn't Be Hard - The Produx Labs
When deciding on a course of action consider failures not just successes. Seems easy right? Now think about a time when you did something risk were you thinking of those that failed or the ones that succeeded? A lot of us will say “of course the ones that succeeded” but then how can you learn from the failures as well? Survivorship Bias: The Tale of Forgotten Failures
How Hipcamp Became the Airbnb of the Outdoors : A good read on hipcamp and why it might actually be a valuable company. A recent parallel for me was Zomato, while they are not in the United States they still have menus/discovery for local restaurants (at least in the Bay Area). Yelp anyone?
Should you rely on gut feelings? Gerd Gigerenzer on Gut Feelings - Econlib
A CRM to manage your friendships? WTF? UpHabit, Dex, and the Stilted Rise of the Personal CRM