Monthly Digest # 2 — June 2021
This month's digest is about moving fast and prioritizing bugs, how to be a good creator, why companies need to be led by people with a creative mindset, and much more!
This month's digest is about moving fast and prioritizing bugs, how to be a good creator, why companies need to be led by people with a creative mindset, and much more!
💡 Insightful
If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it.
— Ana Lorena Fabrega (@anafabrega11) June 11, 2021
And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.
—Seth Godin
5. Create more than you consume@naval said, "To be a good creator, you have to be creative. To be creative, you have to be constantly creating.
— Alex Garcia 🔍 (@alexgarcia_atx) June 2, 2021
Create content.
Geed feedback from the world.
Scale what works.
Innovation comes from pushing through failure.
🧑💻 Software Engineering
Most of the really bad codebases I come across were originally meant to be temporary.
— Laurie (@laurieontech) June 22, 2021
We need to stop doing that! Don't build on top of temporary things, or regroup and make decisions for the long term.
You will feel the pain x1000 sooner rather than later.
1. Understand how and why your company is successful.
— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) June 23, 2021
What is the business model? How is money made? What parts are most profitable, what parts of the company are expanding the most? Why? How does your team fit into all of this?
3. Engage in user research, customer support, and other activities, where you can learn more about how the product works.
— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) June 23, 2021
Pair with designers, UX people, data scientists, operations people and others, who frequently interact with users.
5. Offer product/engineering tradeoffs for the projects you work on.
— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) June 23, 2021
Think of not only making engineering tradeoffs for the product feature your team is building but suggest product tradeoffs that result in less engineering effort. Be open to the feedback on these from others.
6. Ask for frequent feedback from your product manager.
— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) June 23, 2021
The best person to give you feedback on how you're doing on the product skillset is your PM. Reach out for feedback on how valuable they see your product suggestions and ask for thoughts on areas for further growth.
👨💼 Marketing
Why companies that sell #creativity as their product – aka #advertising agencies – need to be lead by people with a creative mindset.
— Sebastian Groebner (@SGroebner) September 14, 2020
“Running a business is a creative act.“ – @Schwartzie14 / @TBWAChiatNY pic.twitter.com/nfCtU7IKAv
📜 A Day in History
Steve Wozniak Steve Wozniak
— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) June 29, 2021
June 29, 1975: June 29, 2007:
First test of the First in line to buy Apple I computer. the iPhone. pic.twitter.com/8xnPosJgWB
✍ Articles️
Luca Rossi
And that's it for this month!
See you next month with more noteworthy content from across the web. Meanwhile, you're most welcome to reach out on Twitter to give your feedback or drop any interesting content that you think are worth sharing! ✌️
Have an awesome next month!
Waseef
