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

Recently Written

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.

Build the whole product (Oct 6)

Your code is only part of the product

Input metrics lead to outcomes (Sep 1)

An easy to understand example of using input metrics to track progress toward an outcome.

Lagging Outcomes (Aug 22)

Long-term things often end up off a team's goals because they can't see how to define measurable outcomes for them. Here's how to solve that.

Tyranny of Outcomes (Aug 19)

An extreme focus on outcomes can have an undesired effect on product teams.

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What I'm Reading

• The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions and Results by Stephen Bungay
• Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman
• Lead!: How to Build a High-Performing Team by Dale Carnegie & Associates
• Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell
• Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey
• Leading Through Inflation: And Recession and Stagflation by Ram Charan
• Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
• Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell by Eric Schmidt
• Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman
• Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal
• Monty Hall, Storytelling, and Planning
• Scaling Up is Hard to Do | Chasm Group
• Crazy, Unloved but Potentially Transformational – What’s in your Loonshot nursery? - Rita McGrath
• When terrible things happen to good innovation projects… - Rita McGrath
• The Hype Handbook: 12 Indispensable Success Secrets From the World’s Greatest Propagandists, Self-Promoters, Cult Leaders, Mischief Makers, and Boundary Breakers by Michael F. Schein
• Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs by Reid Hoffman
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
• Build Better Products: A Modern Approach to Building Successful User-Centered Products by Laura Klein
• Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport