Tradeoffs that arise when selecting a North Star Metric
Selecting a North Star Metric is hard, but it can be extraordinarily valuable if done well. Here are some tradeoffs that arise. One metric vs…
Category: First Drafts
Quick thoughts. Not much editing.
Brainstorm techniques for product solution ideation
If you need to brainstorm potential solutions to a product design problem, these techniques might help. Solution Finds You Steps: Start with a well-scoped design…
Intensional and extensional definitions
Of the many arcane and esoteric distinctions that professional logicians make, there’s one that I think is quite valuable outside of philosophical logic. It’s a…
Cosmic fist bump
I have two middle names. They’re both on my birth certificate, but for most of my life I only used the first one. The first…
Why don’t we build?
Marc Andreessen: It’s time to build. Ezra Klein: The question is why don’t we build? What’s stopping us? Ezra Klein: Here’s my answer: The institutions…
Time to Build
“When the producers of HBO’s “Westworld” wanted to portray the American city of the future, they didn’t film in Seattle or Los Angeles or Austin…
What is a “product”
One way to think about it is that a product is the output of some investment of resources. A successful product is one that makes…
Blogchain: life as product
This is the beginning of an experiment with Venkatesh’s blogchain format.
Products on the efficient frontier
Building products is all about allocating scare resources in such a way as to generate the greatest return. So when we’re thinking about what to…
Consumer food packaging is gonna change
Consumer food packaging evolved to succeed on the grocery store shelf — where it needs to get your attention and show off its wares. As…