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I have seen quite a lot of tweets about being too late to podcasting, e-commerce, crypto etc. But being late has its advantages. The companies that eventually win online are not always the ones that are first to market. Being too early also has its problems. Here's an approximation of

In one of @pmarca [https://twitter.com/pmarca] 's talks, he mentioned a paper in a debate with Peter Thiel. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/44472041]It's a fascinating deep-dive into the early adoption of the automobile and how much of an uphill battle that was. It's the 1900's and

As companies grow, things sometimes become a lot slower. Not only in terms of execution speed, but also in terms of ambition. I am not an expert by any means, just outlining my experience so far and some thoughts around this 👇 My theory is that, unless highly driven by the

After almost 2 years working fully remote, I am honestly scared of the 🙂 . The fact that at some point Slack pushed an update for this to be called :slightly-smiling-face was hilarious and a reassurance that I am never going to argue online. With the potential of things going downhill, here

There were a few meetings when, coming out of the room I said “So what do we do when we’re late with this thing”. Estimations are sensible subject. It still divides the product teams (judging by the /r/programming and the /r/productmanagement communities) and for good reason. We

Early stage start-ups have one goal: get product market fit. This usually means that the initial tech team is focused on functions and features over design. The awkwardness of the situation: a product manager and an engineer staring at a problem, trying to pull together some sort of idea of

There is a chapter in Thomas Sowell's 'Basic Economics' that touches on the history of rent control: > In short, a policy intended to make housing affordable for the poor has had the net effect of shifting resources toward the building of housing that is affordable only by the affluent or

Recent history is filled with examples of people being skeptical about how important cars, the TV, the internet and mobile would eventually become. A famous piece written by Clifford Stol [https://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirvana-185306], in 95: > Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They

Once you start hiring people, there is a fundamental change that happens 40-50 CV's down the line. You become default skeptic. Reading through dozens of CV's that mention the same hard-working and smart individuals takes away any of the meaning behind those words. The CV goes from a method for

Company incentives for growth and the modularity and openness of fitness data are in conflict. This post tries to argue that if fitness trackers become even more ubiquitous and we adopt them as early as possible in someone's lifetime, the data has a compounding value in deriving insights, but those