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Daily Reading from June 14, 2008

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14 Jun 2008

Links to what I’ve been reading recently.

Up and Then Down: The New Yorker — "But after a moment White felt a jolt. The lights went out and immediately flashed on again. And then the elevator stopped. "

Recently Written

Lighten Your Process Burden: Dec 7: Everyone hates oppressive processes, but somehow we keep managing to create them.
Product Add-Ons Are An Expansion Myth: Dec 1: Add-ons can enhance your product’s appeal but won’t drive significant market growth. To expand your customer base, focus on developing standalone products.
Protecting your Product Soul when the Same Product meets New People.: Nov 23: Expand into new markets while preserving your product’s core value. Discover how to adapt and grow without losing your product’s soul.
Building the Next Big Thing: A Framework for Your Second Product: Nov 19: You need a first product sooner than you think. Here's a framework for helping you identify a winner.
A Framework for Scaling product teams: Oct 9: The people, processes, and systems that make up a product organization change radically as you go through the stages of a company. This framework will guide that scaling.
My Networked Webcam Setup: Sep 25: A writeup of my network-powered conference call camera setup.
Roadmap Outcomes, not Features: Sep 4: Drive success by roadmapping the outcomes you'll create instead of the features you'll deliver.
Different roadmaps for different folks: Sep 2: The key to effective roadmapping? Different views for different needs.

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What I'm Reading

The secret tricks hidden inside restaurant menus at bbc.com
Storing times for human events at simonwillison.net
Tesla’s Big Bet: Cameras over LiDAR for Self Driving Cars at viksnewsletter.com
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business by Patrick Lencioni
Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand by Matthew Dicks
Soft matter mechanics of baseball’s Rubbing Mud | PNAS at pnas.org
bureaucracy at dhruvmethi.substack.com
Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot by Matt Abrahams
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell
Beacon 23 by Hugh Howey
Why GitHub Actually Won at blog.gitbutler.com
Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove
Why UX Fails: The Critical Importance of Staying Focused on Your Primary Customer at medium.com
The Antidote to "Manager Mode" is Actual Management at edbatista.com
Founder Mode at paulgraham.com
B2B Product-Led Growth Non-Negotiable: TEAM Network Effects at elenaverna.substack.com
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip Heath
The Mindset That Kills Product Thinking at jpattonassociates.com
Vector Search: Understanding + Calculating the Distance Between Vectors at singlestore.com
Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey? at hbr.org
fish shell at fishshell.com