The Takeaways: Week 6 of 2022

Leadership lessons, job title shenanigans, thoughts about product (and what happens when what you though was product-market fit starts to slip), and the idea that one should thinking of testing as a circuit breaker for assumptions in the code....

The Takeaways: Week 5 of 2022

Digital networks, healthcare takes, and a story about a sonic visionary (it's not as contradictory as it sounds). Newsletters Julia Angwin, Hello World/The Markup. A Kinder, Gentler Social Network (February 5, 2022) [Michael Wood-Lewis, founder...

The Takeaways: Week 4 of 2022

A periodic review of articles, newsletters, and podcasts that I found interesting, inspiring, or otherwise worth remembering. Newsletters Deb Liu, Lenny's Newsletter. The inside story of Facebook Marketplace (January 18, 2022) In 2012, I was the...

The Takeaways: Week 3 of 2022

This week, mostly ups and downs in health care, interoperability, and medical debt - plus a couple of cogent web3 observations. Newsletters Ted Gioia, The Honest Broker. Is old music killing new music? (January 19, 2022) Even so, I refuse to...

The Takeaways: Week 2 of 2022

Newsletters John Cutler, The Beautiful Mess. TBM 2/52: Leaps of Product Faith (January 13, 2022) This is why I tell product leaders that they are in the narrative business AND the make-regular-progress business. Part of your role is creating a...

The Takeaways: Week 1 of 2022

A couple takes on some of the primitive components of digital experience, what "sensitive" and "specific" mean in the context of Covid testing, and a few other snippets. Newsletters Gordon Brander, Subconscious. What if links weren't meant to be...

The Takeaways: Weeks 51 and 52 of 2021

A final few for 2021: SAFe, how some people react to the idea of dogfooding, demographic trends in crypto adoption, and other observations. Podcasts Melissa Perri (host), Product Thinking. Episode 46: Dissecting the Pluses and Pitfalls of SAFe...

The Takeaways: Week 50 of 2021

This week: mental models and decision-making from a number of angles; ways of working and getting work; a few examples of sneaky/shady internet shenanigans. Plus more thinking about where virtual care will settle in the medical/consumer toolkit....

The Takeaways: Week 49 of 2021

A periodic review of articles, newsletters, and podcasts that I found interesting, inspiring, or otherwise worth remembering. Newsletters Kevin O'Leary and Ryan Russell, Weekly Health Tech Reads December 5, 2021 United Health Group Investor Day...

The Takeaways: Week 48 of 2021

Just a few this week. Podcasts Tyler Cowen (host), Conversations with Tyler. Claudia Goldin on the Economics of Inequality (Ep. 133) (October 6, 2021) Melissa Perri (host), Product Thinking. Episode 44: Testing Your Ideas with David Bland...