Jon

Product Leader and Entrepreneur

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

Airbnb has a blueprint of their entire customer journey on their office walls.

They then map all product, policy, and service updates to it.

More companies should do this to avoid shipping the org chart.

[Jon @jon5nav]

@callmehouck Grow

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Believe what you see, not what you’re told

[Kory Waldron @FullAccessHoops]

The Michael Jordan monologue to end episode 7 of #TheLastDance is the only motivation I need the rest of 2020

[Naval @naval]

Learn from times iterated over time spent.

Craft a thousand tweets before ten blog posts before one novel.

Skim a dozen books before absorbing one.

Make many small investments before a few big bets.

Build many small products before starting a company.

Explore, then exploit.

[Jon @jon5nav]

Stacy Brown-Philpot of TaskRabbit on Being a Black Woman in Silicon Valley https://t.co/8ZhfFc6DYv

[Jon @jon5nav]

Illinois folks doing amazing amazing things in this world. Nonstop inspiration.

[Naval @naval]

The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness.

It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all.

It‘d show opposing ideas and students would self-verify truth.

No grades, no tests, no diplomas - just learning.

Actually, you’re already here. Careful who you follow.

[Jon @jon5nav]

Embracing uncertainty when forming beliefs helps build credibility: “I am x% confident that belief y is accurate or not accurate”.

[Jon @jon5nav]

Better mental representations lead to better performance. Peak - Ericsson.

[Jon @jon5nav]

Just wrapped up one of the better product conferences I’ve been to. #frontutah

[Noah Desai Weiss @noah_weiss]

1/ “Chief Question Officer” is the unofficial role of many great product, design, and eng leaders. The best questions foster rigor, encourage focus, and teach instincts. Some favorites when reviewing product proposals / plans / specs:

[Noah Desai Weiss @noah_weiss]

1/ Product Management isn’t a major one can study, few folks graduate into, and most people learn by apprenticeship. There are number of dangerous myths about what the PM role is. Here is a thread with five…

[Aaron Levie @levie]

The future of email is just receiving GDPR privacy notices until your inbox fills up and you no longer have the will to use email anymore.

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." - Bill Gates

[Jon @jon5nav]

MVP should be a prototype, not a product. Shipping product quality deliverable to learn can lead to waste.

[Jon @jon5nav]

Been using a lot of binary trees to break down problems and make decisions lately.

[Jon @jon5nav]

Just gave away my old aerodynamics and controls books to my double E buddy who is about to work on something really innovative in the autonomous space.