8 Highly Anticipated books releasing later this year and early next year to add to your reading list:
1) Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell [Oct 1st, 2024]
This is it: @bchesky on founder mode.
Three reasons why founders differ from managers:
1. Being the biological parent
2. Full permission to make change
3. Knowing how to rebuild the company
In 2016, roughly 20-30% of MBA grads founded their own startup.
Now?
They're skipping the building part and going straight to CEO.
Here's how:
(*spoiler: you don't need an MBA to do it)
A Product Strategy paper is real work.
You will spend many, many hours to setup one, align it with others, revise it, execute the strategy.
Below I share with you a product strategy example of one of the products I'm working on.
Epic post on how Nike lost $25B in a day by trying to make everything data-driven:
"Nike invested billions into something that was less effective but easier to measure vs something that was more effective but less easy to measure.
In conclusion: an impressive waste of money."
Crowdstrike Analysis:
It was a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C++ language.
Since I am a professional C++ programmer, let me decode this stack trace dump for you.
A study was published on how personality traits relate to life satisfaction.
The no.1 trait of people satisfied with life?
“Having a lot of fun.”
Here’s what else they found:
The startup journey is like a rollercoaster. Resilience isn’t just a trait; it's the safety harness that keeps you strapped in during the wildest twists and turns. It’s what helps us pivot when plans go awry and keeps us focused on the end goal.