public version of WeeklyReview? (more)

Jason Cohen: Failure to face the truth. (Supported by 4 books.) A primary blocker of progress, from our personal lives to our corporate strategies, is a Failure to face the truth. “The truth hurts.” Yeah, so we avoid it. The truth is hard to find if we’re not looking for it, and we’re not (more)

An alternative to the Thin Book can be a Comic Book. Here are 2 business-related examples I ran across in the bookstore yesterday: (more)

book about team work

book about honesty (congruence) esp in feedback

classic Jim Collins book

Can ActivityPub save the internet? The hottest new thing in social isn’t vertical video, and it’s not AI-driven algorithmic feeds. Instead, it’s a little-known, years-old protocol called ActivityPub that could help rewire the entire social fabric of the internet. (more)

Greg Isenberg: The Best $65 I’ve Ever Spent. I only spent $65 on a project that… Brought 25,000 community members together... Captured 50,000 email addresses for a newsletter with a 54% open rate... Paved the way for a productized agency on pace for a 7-figure run rate… in only 40 days? (more)

someone getting a college education or at least college degree

Jason Cohen: Excuse me, is there a problem? Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. (more)

Ernie Smith: Why Substack’s New App is Bad News for Newsletters. Now, more than four years since Substack launched, the firm decided to do something small that, symbolically, represents something big: It released an app. (more)

Substack's microblogging social network

John Cutler: A Map from Goals, Around Assumptions, Through Tasks, Towards Results. One of the central roles of a product manager is to drive shared understanding. With shared understanding, a team is more effective, resilient, and creative. Alignment without shared understanding is temporary and short-lived. (more)

a belief you pretend is a fact (nature of truth)

Arnold Kling, trying again to avoid Message Vs Messenger confusions, thinks we should generally assume that people we disagree with actually have Shared Goal-s with us, just different assumptions that affect our respective Design decisions. (more)

Teresa Torres: What Product Assumptions Are You Making? ...more often than not, I see that development teams are not even aware that these hypotheses exist, instead building their products as if they were fact. The problem with this approach is that rarely does a team get all, if any, of these hypotheses right from the get-go. If they don’t first test them (more)

John Cutler: TBM 46/52: (F)acts, (A)ssumptions, (B)eliefs (more)

We all seem to be playing multiple games (Games Theory) at all times, assuming all human activity are games, and we're always involved in multiple sets of human activity. (more)

Simon Owens: Substack Notes could be the Twitter killer we've been waiting for. Ever since he acquired Twitter last year, Elon Musk has shown himself to be a capricious owner. (Musk Buys Twitter) (more)

Nathan Baschez: A New Kind of Startup is Coming. Normally when engineers talk about Conway’s Law, they’re thinking about how managers should organize their employees to yield better systems design. But the law goes the other way, too: The systems we work with determine the organizations we get. (more)