Monthly Digest # 2 — June 2021

If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. 

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

— Ana Lorena Fabrega (@anafabrega11) June 11, 2021

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.

Create content.

Geed feedback from the world.

Scale what works.

Innovation comes from pushing through failure.

— Alex Garcia 🔍 (@alexgarcia_atx) June 2, 2021

Most of the really bad codebases I come across were originally meant to be temporary.

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.

— Laurie (@laurieontech) June 22, 2021

1. Understand how and why your company is successful.

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?

— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) June 23, 2021

3. Engage in user research, customer support, and other activities, where you can learn more about how the product works.

Pair with designers, UX people, data scientists, operations people and others, who frequently interact with users.

— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) June 23, 2021

5. Offer product/engineering tradeoffs for the projects you work on.

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.

— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) June 23, 2021

6. Ask for frequent feedback from your product manager.

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.

— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) June 23, 2021

Why companies that sell #creativity as their product – aka #advertising agencies – need to be lead by people with a creative mindset.

“Running a business is a creative act.“ – @Schwartzie14 / @TBWAChiatNY pic.twitter.com/nfCtU7IKAv

— Sebastian Groebner (@SGroebner) September 14, 2020

Steve Wozniak        Steve Wozniak
June 29, 1975:        June 29, 2007:

First test of the        First in line to buy Apple I computer.    the iPhone. pic.twitter.com/8xnPosJgWB

— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) June 29, 2021