This is the blog of Adam Kalsey. Unusual depth and complexity. Rich, full body with a hint of nutty earthiness.

Recently Written

The Trap of The Sales-Led Product (Dec 10)

It’s not a winning way to build a product company.

The Hidden Cost of Custom Customer Features (Dec 7)

One-off features will cost you more than you think and make your customers unhappy.

Domain expertise in Product Management (Nov 16)

When you're hiring software product managers, hire for product management skills. Looking for domain experts will reduce the pool of people you can hire and might just be worse for your product.

Strategy Means Saying No (Oct 27)

An oft-overlooked aspect of strategy is to define what you are not doing. There are lots of adjacent problems you can attack. Strategy means defining which ones you will ignore.

Understanding vision, strategy, and execution (Oct 24)

Vision is what you're trying to do. Strategy is broad strokes on how you'll get there. Execution is the tasks you complete to complete the strategy.

How to advance your Product Market Fit KPI (Oct 21)

Finding the gaps in your product that will unlock the next round of growth.

Developer Relations as Developer Success (Oct 19)

Outreach, marketing, and developer evangelism are a part of Developer Relations. But the companies that are most successful with developers spend most of their time on something else.

Developer Experience Principle 6: Easy to Maintain (Oct 17)

Keeping your product Easy to Maintain will improve the lives of your team and your customers. It will help keep your docs up to date. Your SDKs and APIs will be released in sync. Your tooling and overall experience will shine.

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What I'm Reading

• Everyone needs a coach — Kate Leto
• Unpacking 5 of Atlassian’s Most Unconventional Company-Building Moves
• Start with No: The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know by Jim Camp
• The Relentless Jeff Bezos
• The Testing Mindset Myth | TestProject
• Quantifying Qualitative Research by Leisa Reichelt - Mind the Product
• Is Capitalism Sustainable? by Michael Munger
• Tether: The Story So Far | Kalzumeus Software
• Are you a seal? — Benedict Evans
• Product Leadership Is Hard | Silicon Valley Product Group
• Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't by Simon Sinek
• Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
• For Distributed Agile Teams, It’s Not All about the Tools - Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant
• Creating a thriving API ecosystem starting with the API experience
• A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim
• Pickled Punk by Chris Minnick
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows