Design Scorecard: a framework for giving feedback
This is a framework to use when you’re looking at a proposed solution to a well-defined design problem, and your goal is to provide feedback…
This is a framework to use when you’re looking at a proposed solution to a well-defined design problem, and your goal is to provide feedback…
I’m preparing for product management interviews. Like all PMs I love frameworks, and a fun thing about interview prep is that I get to quickly…
Lewis Lin’s CIRCLES method is a popular framework for tackling the type of product design questions that commonly show up in product management interviews. I…
On the wall in an Uber office, painted in bold, confident letters is a General George Patton quote: “A good plan violently executed now is…
The 80/20 rule or “Pareto Principle” says that for many phenomena, a majority (eg 80%) of the effects come from a minority (eg 20%) of…
Mr. Thiel shows, again and again, how he likes to “flip around” issues to see if conventional wisdom is wrong, a technique he calls Pyrrhonian…
For Ray Dalio, making good decisions requires maintaining a true and rich picture of the realities that will affect your decision. To do that, you…
Strategy is the practice of intentionally improving one’s world-model and acting in the world according to the dictates of the model. A world model is…
The most damaging thing you learned in school wasn’t something you learned in any specific class. It was learning to get good grades. Paul Graham…
I haven’t been able to verify this, but it’s written on the tubes that Al Ries, co-author of the seminal marketing book ‘Positioning: The Battle…