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19 September
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If you enjoy calls, you're probably a manager not a maker https://t.co/CmUTfFxVgZ https://t.co/ZslI1JXbZW
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From one piece Where’s the Beef (Coming From)? 2 beliefs · paulkrugman.substack.com
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It’s an administration that’s trying to turn us back to the 19th century or before. It’s really just trying to undo even the most essential functions of government.
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And this is not something that you can leave up to the private sector. It’s not something where you can do your own research. It’s a very complicated world out there. And the informational burden of trying to figure out whether the people responsible for your package of hamburger are actually following safe procedures, that’s beyond everybody.
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26 August
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The reason I say that is there's a lot of programmers who are not very good product managers. Software is product management. What should it do? Who should it do it for? How should it do it? How should it look? What are our priorities? What do we start with first? What does version one include? All of those skills are not easily or equally distributed across all programmers.
16 August
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Words are tools to hide truth. I can’t say much about these recordings and books by Alan Watts. It wouldn’t be fair to do so.
13 August
12 August
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Letting a robot imagine the next image helps, but it is not essential — the model was surprisingly good without it.Their words
uh the we found that that leads to improvement and we saw in the shirt folding example we saw like a quantitative bump from using that sort of imagination compared to not using it. At the same time I think that the model actually performed surprisingly well without that as well.
10 August
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Ben’s article serves as a great reminder of why the product role is so essential, and is likely to remain essential.
9 August
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Consistent roast color in sample roasting is essential for making fair, informed green-coffee buying decisions.Their words
Roast quality and color can have a big impact on perceived cup score and buying decisions, so if you are serious about choosing the right green for your company, it is a good idea to do your own sample roasting, using a system that yields your preferred roast level consistently.
7 August
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And so we can distribute the voting across a lot of the company for this initial review, which is essential because if you're doing anything cool, by the time you get a couple years into it, that top of funnel is overwhelming. And if you place any in any small group of employees or any one person in the way as a bottle bottleneck on this, they will absolutely bottleneck the whole rest of the organization.
2 August
From one piece This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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hiring so many PMs infantilizes the engineers and the designers who are perfectly capable of making good decisions, but just never had to because there was always a PM to babysit them.
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People who manage product managers should still spend almost all of their own time doing individual contributor work.Their words
There's like I think four or five people across the team who manage other PMs. All of them would spend 90 plus percent of their time doing IC work. I'm still probably 50% of my time doing IC work personally.
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there's definitely a group of PMs and I certainly used to be one of them earlier in my career whose specialty wasn't technical or customer-oriented, it was politics.
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rather than mapping PMs to teams where you kind of assume that the PM will always do that, we tend to map them to kind of problems or kind of like core projects.
31 July
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Details are the essential substance of human communication, creativity and productivity.Their words
Details are the very heart and substance of human communication, creativity, and productivity.
20 July
10 June
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Success now requires combining the best human intelligence with the best artificial intelligenceTheir words
I believe that the path to success is best achieved by putting the best human intelligence together with the best artificial intelligence and that the way of thinking I am describing here is essential to understand and use in the new human/artificial intelligence era.
Principled Thinking and AI Need to Go Togetherraydalio.substack.com
26 May
24 May
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But the coding models have gotten good enough that he can pair the kind of the technical knowledge he does have with his really spiky product sense and sense for writing and sense for users.
13 May
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In a sense, we're all turning into project managers, right? And and we can have an army of junior programmers called agents that will just spit out reams of code, but someone's got to have the big picture and review all of that. And so, increasingly our craft is going from one of writing the code to one of of reviewing the code and and building the architecture of the code and overseeing the work, if if you will.
26 April
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in the early days, my view was not that we don't need PMs. My view was that designers should do that work.
16 March
15 March
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Edifier R1855DBTheir words
Amazing sounding bookshelf speakers that I use while gaming and watching content
10 March
23 January
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Suffering is not an interruption of a good life but the ground the good things grow out of.Their words
Suffering is the essential and nourishing ground from which all the delightful gifts of life emerge.
21 January
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Blueprint Longevity MixTheir words
These are in the Blueprint stack including Essential Capsules and Longevity Mix
7 January
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Companies should offer dual career tracks so product managers can advance without becoming people managers.Their words
Companies should embrace multitrack job ladders for product managers who prefer product leadership to people management.
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Getting To YesTheir words
Product managers need to be master negotiators and there’s no better guide to negotiation than this classic.
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How to Lie with StatisticsTheir words
Product managers need a solid foundation in statistics to be metrics-driven. This classic book is a lively and fun book will leave you smarter and more skeptical.
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Strong Product People: A Complete Guide to Developing Great Product ManagersTheir words
Whether you’re a product leader coaching a team member or still early in your product maangement career, Petra Wille will help you break down the essentials of the job and develop a plan for growth.
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On WritingTheir words
Product managers need to be good writers, and this is how you learn from one of the masters of the craft.
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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our LivesTheir words
Levy was given unprecedented access to Google, and the result is what I consider to be an accurate depiction of how the company operates. A good overview of how Google product managers work.
10 December 2025
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With so many professional money managers afraid to act, with most of the public in the grip of fear and anger, you should put your cash and your courage to work.
18 November 2025
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The effectiveness of a plot twist depends on how carefully a story's point of view relates to its audience.Their words
Point of view is essential for effective twists. Contrast Frozen with Fight Club, where the narrator's unreliability works because the entire story flows through his perspective and he maintains a direct relationship with the audience through fourth-wall breaks.
Frozen's Lie: How a Tiny Detail Can Ruin a Storynateliason.com
20 October 2025
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The fractures fell neatly along disciplines: engineers using AI to wish away designers, designers wishing away engineers, product managers wishing away both. In this climate, AI becomes frenemy identification technology, another way to avoid working together.
16 October 2025
From one piece Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Field 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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we're looking for high judgment individuals, people that are going to roll up their sleeves and do a lot, whether they're IC's or managers, and people that are going to get the details and perfect their craft, because we know that's how we're going to win is by having the best craft, the best design.
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PMs are no longer saying to the designer, hey, can you draw this thing out for me? That frees up designer time to go explore more deeply the stuff they need to go into and it allows anyone to kind of add to that first conversation of where should we go and look further and wider and broader at the option space.
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30 September 2025
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Yeah. I still think math is essential. It's something that shapes your brain, it teaches you to rely on your logical thinking to split big problems into smaller parts, put them in the right sequence, solve them patiently, trying again if it doesn't work.
21 September 2025
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we often also have this mental model of like oh our managers are a judge and they're going to judge me on whether or not I got it I did well I should get a promotion I should be fired so there's this sometimes fear that people have but I think in the very best relationships the manager is like a guide
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China TalkTheir words
When this is good and on point, it is very, very good, and provides essential perspective I couldn’t have found elsewhere, especially when doing key interviews.
21 May 2025
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We live in the era of the symbolic executive, when "being good at stuff" matters far less than the appearance of doing stuff, where "what's useful" is dictated not by outputs or metrics that one can measure but rather the vibes passed between managers and executives that have worked their entire careers to escape the world of work.
1 April 2025
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The stereotype is that new managers often micromanage, but at Wave, I've noticed that new managers often err on the side of undermanaging, or being too hands-off, perhaps out of a desire to signal that they trust their reports.
21 March 2025
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RestTheir words
A refreshing counterargument to our culture's obsession with busyness, showing how deliberate rest is an essential component of the good life.
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In Praise of IdlenessTheir words
A collection of timeless essays from philosopher Bertrand Russell, including his famous 'In Praise of Idleness' which challenges our obsession with work and argues that leisure time, properly used, is essential for a fulfilling life and a better society.
16 March 2025
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The best project managers are usually not the strongest technical individual contributors.Their words
The best project-managers are often not the strongest technical ICs.
7 March 2025
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Vibe coding can execute instructions, but deciding what the software should do and why is not automated. Product managers and designers must still do user research, market analysis, and creative brainstorming. In that sense, vibe coding changes the implementation phase more than the planning phase of the product lifecycle.
7 February 2025
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Money beltTheir words
Money belt. This flat, hidden, zippered pouch — worn around your waist and tucked under your clothes — is essential for the peace of mind it brings.
16 December 2024
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Radical CandorTheir words
The definite book about giving good and candid feedback - and a very useful read for new(ish) managers. The book is a list of ideas around the theme of caring personally and challenging directly.
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First, Break all the RulesTheir words
Gallup interviewed thousands of high-performing teams and managers and found a dozen of things each of these teams had in common. While the insights are good, the content itself was quite dry for my taste.
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The Manager’s PathTheir words
A concise guide for managers, from tech lead, through line managers, managers of managers, all the way to CTO. Very much recommended: I have gone back to re-read parts of it several times.
1 September 2024
From one piece Founder Mode 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I also have another less optimistic prediction: as soon as the concept of founder mode becomes established, people will start misusing it. Founders who are unable to delegate even things they should will use founder mode as the excuse. Or managers who aren't founders will decide they should try to act like founders.
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There are things founders can do that managers can't, and not doing them feels wrong to founders, because it is.
25 August 2024
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Indeed, it no longer feels amusing to see the Telegram organization urge people away from default-encrypted messengers, while refusing to implement essential features that would widely encrypt their own users’ messages.
Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?blog.cryptographyengineering.com
2 August 2024
8 May 2024
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That makes it essential to ensure that all synthetic DNA orders are screened to determine whether they contain hazardous sequences, which should be shipped only to legitimate researchers whose work has been approved by a biosafety authority.
20 February 2024
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And what activism has done, and I think we've helped lead this movement, is it restored the balance of power between the owners of the business and the management of the company. And that's been a very good thing for the performance of the US stock market actually.
16 January 2024
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The Pragmatic EngineerTheir words
Gergely brings an incredible amount of reporting depth to every edition of this newsletter about the nuts and bolts of building technology. A must-read for the tech rank-and-file and their managers.
5 January 2024
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A few larger teams under experienced engineering managers outperform many tiny teams each led by a working tech lead.Their words
But everything I have ever experienced leads me to believe that a fewer number of larger teams, each helmed by an experienced engineering manager, should way outperform this gaggle of tiny groups.
24 November 2023
20 November 2023
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Not the End of the WorldTheir words
His life and work have influenced my own tremendously—and just a few pages into Ritchie’s essential and hopeful new book, Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet, it became clear that she was carrying on his tremendous legacy.
30 August 2023
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AmethystTheir words
Amethyst, I wasn't into window managers until I used this one.
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Given the trend of pre-training larger and larger models, we believe modularity will be crucial.
9 October 2021
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New managers, make sure that you aren’t trying to be a senior engineer who has direct reports.
How New Managers Fail Individual Contributorselidedbranches.com
10 September 2021
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Schema Therapy Training Institute video seriesTheir words
This video series is grounded in an understanding, both conceptually and practically, of the essential value of the therapy relationship in schema therapy
29 May 2021
18 January 2021
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Licensing is a political and social construct, so an unlicensed profession can still be doing engineering.Their words
licenses exist because we are part of society and have legal requirements, not because they are essential to what it means to do engineering
28 October 2020
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The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes UpTheir words
If you're deep into building a company, or serious about building something that lasts, this is an excellent read. Written by a man who has built multiple $100Mn+ revenue companies. He has a great, matter of fact language and lessons that are key to the most essential parts of building a business. This is a must read for any serious founder.
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14 July 2018
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Managers should support 6-8 engineers. This gives them enough time for active coaching, coordinating and furthering their team’s mission by writing strategies, leading change, and so on.
1 January 2018
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Turn the Ship AroundTheir words
Guide to transforming top-down organizations into lean ones, where everyone is a leader. Written by a submarine commander, it’s mostly useful to managers in big corporations and other institutions.
14 December 2017
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The Power of MomentsTheir words
You should check out Chip and Dan Heath's new book, which is essential reading for anybody who cares about culture and leadership.
6 September 2017
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The test of whether someone is ready to manage managers is whether their peer managers would want to work for them.Their words
Ultimately, if you want to manage managers, a manager should want to work for you.
26 July 2017
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A password manager does not have to be perfect; it only has to be better than what people do without one.Their words
password managers don't have to be perfect, they just have to be better than not having one.
11 May 2017
From one piece The Engineer/Manager Pendulum 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The best frontline eng managers in the world are the ones that are never more than 2-3 years removed from hands-on work, full time down in the trenches. The best individual contributors are the ones who have done time in management.
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Fuck the whole idea that only managers get career progression.
13 April 2017
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Managers Not MBAsTheir words
Henry Mintzberg, Managers Not MBAs
25 February 2017
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The bottom line: When trillions of dollars are managed by Wall Streeters charging high fees, it will usually be the managers who reap outsized profits, not the clients. Both large and small investors should stick with low-cost index funds.
Berkshire Hathaway 2016 Chairman's Letterberkshirehathaway.com
16 January 2017
9 July 2015
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MouseRugTheir words
My mousepad is a MouseRug. It is essential to my mental health that my mouse live on this tiny Persian rug with fringe and everything.
11 March 2015
4 November 2014
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The bandwidth capacity of your users' connections might improve noticeably, as it steadily has, but the latency needle won't move much at all. This means that minimizing the number of roundtrips you make to display information on page is essential to great user experience and responsiveness.
28 February 2014
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My advice to the trustee could not be more simple: Put 10% of the cash in short-term government bonds and 90% in a very low-cost S&P 500 index fund. (I suggest Vanguard’s.) I believe the trust’s long-term results from this policy will be superior to those attained by most investors – whether pension funds, institutions or individuals – who employ high-fee managers.
Berkshire Hathaway 2013 Chairman's Letterberkshirehathaway.com
31 January 2013
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The Challenger accident was caused by managers who suppressed engineers' safety concerns for venal reasons.On changing their mind
For all those years I had learned the wrong lesson about the loss of Challenger.
3 August 2012
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Good design is as little design as possible: less, but better, because it concentrates on the essentials.Their words
Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials.
6 January 2012
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ShiftItTheir words
My only regret in switching from Linux to OS X is giving up the raw efficiency of tiling window managers like ion. ShiftIt makes up some of the difference.
1 January 2012
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