What you should be looking for to make your teams better is diversity of backgrounds and life experiences. Hire people across every privilege spectrum, because that is what actually gets you diverse perspectives and understandings of people’s needs.Open Letter To Tech Companies: Please Raise Your Bar
What you need to know about the next piece is contained in the last piece.10x Not 10%
Patreon is still too new and too small to judge its total impact, its long-term prospects, or who it might end up appealing to. Because donations are recurring, it’s somewhat easier to project earnings for Patreon than for one-off crowdfunding sites, which has made it a safer bet for some investors.Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture
Code is meaningless if nobody knows about your product. Code is meaningless if the IRS comes and throws you in jail because you didn't do your taxes. Code is meaningless if you get sued because you didn't bother having a software license created by a lawyer.Code: It's Trivial
The reason Slack is defensible is its attention to detail. While the product itself is relatively simple, the design aesthetic, brand and user experience is unparalleled. You just can’t clone that. Design doesn’t just have to be a bonus on top of your features. You can use it as a point of differentiation to help you penetrate competitive markets, regardless of the size of your competitors.Minimum Beautiful Product
New technologies come with many unknowns, creating a need for establishing best practices, standards, and design patterns. It’s assumed that this is why UX designers will have long-term job security in the coming years. There will always be a need for designers employing user-centered design techniques to put warmth into products. New Realities: VR, AR, MR, and the Future of Design
We like to think that we’re different from all those industries that judge people based on appearance, but we do the same thing, only instead of saying that people are a bad fit because they don’t wear ties, we say they’re a bad fit because they do, and instead of saying people aren’t smart enough because they don’t have the right pedigree… wait, that’s exactly the same.When we only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest
This is similar to “What problem are you solving?” but the bar is higher. What I really want to understand is what you know about the problem that everyone else doesn’t. This is usually derived from multiple conversations with customers, deep analysis of current products in the space, and often personal experience.How to Pitch Your Company
For a Product Manager, you can get really good at the tactical stuff: requirements gathering, prioritization, sprint management. However if you can’t think strategically, you will be hampered when developing a long-term product vision, avoiding the feature factory, and getting executive buy-in on new product ideas.WTF is Strategy?
Then really importantly: Don't plan your route to the top. Simply don’t plan! Your mountain has never been climbed before. You just can't know the path. Or, in corporate land, you can’t know the budget and you can’t predict when your business will succeed. How Not To Climb a Mountain or How to Kill Your Start-Up
