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)

Evan Armstrong: Steve Jobs' Legacy for Builders. Steve Jobs was objectively cruel....Steve Jobs was objectively brilliant.... Talent and terror. Cruelty and compassion. Genius and narcissism. To accept Jobs (and by extension every person who changed the world) you have to accept this duality.... Still, when Make Something Wonderful was published on Tuesday, April 11th, I found myself accidentally slipping into fandom (more)

Simon Owens: Twitter has never understood the Creator Economy. From the very moment Elon Musk announced he was buying Twitter, we’ve been bombarded with predictions about how he would change the product, but it wasn’t until after the deal closed last week that his plans for the platform began to take shape. And what’s his first priority right out of the gate? Charging power users somewhere between $96 and $240 a year to keep their blue verification check marks. (more)