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Musings and thoughts on business, life, and more that don’t fit within my other newsletters.
✅ You don’t need a product management prioritization framework
Most product management frameworks are not useful and many are harmful for startups. RICE, Kano, MoSCoW, etc. sound good on paper. But frameworks fail most startups for 3 reasons.
💻 Hiring in tech is broken
After 11 years as a CTO, here's the hard truth, traditional tech hiring is failing us. Here's why, and what actually works...
🎉 2023 Wrapped
“Your life is perfectly designed for the results you’re getting.” Reflections on the last year which was full of big changes and what’s coming in 2024.
🧠 9 cognitive biases every startup founder should be aware of (and how they impact you)
As a startup founder, you face decisions daily. Each day you're taking in new data and deciding on a course of action. Being aware of how cognitive biases can skew the data you gather, and the decisions you make on it can help you reduce errors in judgment and improve your odds of success.
💻 Innovation & Disruption: Apple & ARM vs Intel & x86
Apple with their new M1 SoC (system on a chip) is doing a classic disruption move (as defined by Clay Christensen) on Intel. Intel's market is deeply entrenched with the x86 architecture and has effectively been ignoring ARM for years.
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