The Truth About Cars. Product Management, strategy, and product-market-fit are not isolated to software, and we're frankly not very good at them compared to 100 year old companies.
Watching Tesla show the faults in the SV way of doing things has been really fascinating, for example.
I read through those while working at a Fortune 500 company. It sounded so close to truth, like the author was observing the same interactions I saw. Turns out he was at the same company at one point.
The fact that those stand the test of time and resonate with so many people working in large organizations really helps with perspective.
This is an amazing article that I had read a few years back. Incidentally, I had tried many combinations of keywords to find it again but no avail. Thanks to you, my search is finally over.
Gwern is an independent researcher who studies... a lot of things. He's documented some of the history of the dark web, blogs about his nootropics experience and, perhaps most notably, predicted that bitcoin might reach $10,000... in 2011.
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I love this one more though (much shorter, but makes you think, and once you start thinking about it seriously...): https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/10/100-blocks-day.html
Then the rest of the best-of: https://slatestarcodex.com/about/
Lately I've been obsessed with Samzdat on Seeing Like a State: https://samzdat.com/2017/05/22/man-as-a-rationalist-animal/
https://www.simoahava.com/
Watching Tesla show the faults in the SV way of doing things has been really fascinating, for example.
Reading this in middle management at a bank was illuminating.
The fact that those stand the test of time and resonate with so many people working in large organizations really helps with perspective.
https://sivers.org/kimo
Gwern is an independent researcher who studies... a lot of things. He's documented some of the history of the dark web, blogs about his nootropics experience and, perhaps most notably, predicted that bitcoin might reach $10,000... in 2011.
https://thelastpsychiatrist.com
The blogs that aspire to follow in TLP's footsteps are legion.