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Daily Reading from October 28, 2008

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  • Get Small Fast! — "Seth Godin suggests you can be “too small to fail”.  He explains, “One secret of ’small is the new big’ thinking is that you won’t fail and you can’t fail and you don’t need to worry about a bailout. Not ..."
  • The Weather's Wicked Curve Ball — "Tonight: Skies will be mainly cloudy and showers are possible through the evening and overnight hours. Showers may become a steadier light rain as the evening progresses and moves through the night. The Phillies' game may be a bit wet ..."
  • LinkedIn’s platform opens for business — "LinkedIn, the professional networking web site, has publicly launched its platform to third-party developers, with an emphasis on supporting business and “productivity” applications that have failed to gain traction on other social networks. Called InApps, it looks pretty promising. LinkedIn ..."
  • Limelight’s Recent Network Buildout Lowering CDN Pricing, Impacting Margins

Recently Written

Too Big To Fail (Apr 9)
When a company piles resources on a new product idea, it doesn't have room to fail. That keeps it from succeeding.
Go small (Apr 4)
The strengths of a large organization are the opposite of what makes innovation work. Starting something new requires that you start with a small team.
Start with a Belief (Apr 1)
You can't use data to build products unless you start with a hypothesis.
Mastery doesn’t come from perfect planning (Dec 21)
In a ceramics class, one group focused on a single perfect dish, while another made many with no quality focus. The result? A lesson in the value of practice over perfection.
The Dark Side of Input Metrics (Nov 27)
Using input metrics in the wrong way can cause unexpected behaviors, stifled creativity, and micromanagement.
Reframe How You Think About Users of your Internal Platform (Nov 13)
Changing from "Customers" to "Partners" will give you a better perspective on internal product development.
Measuring Feature success (Oct 17)
You're building features to solve problems. If you don't know what success looks like, how did you decide on that feature at all?
How I use OKRs (Oct 13)
A description of how I use OKRs to guide a team, written so I can send to future teams.

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