From willpower to flow: how Tana and Claude Code made my diary habit enjoyable
The origin More than 10 years ago I went to a lecture by Bayram Annakov, founder of App in the Air and Onsa.Ai, about Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's book Flow – the state of full immersion where effort and time fall away. The Inflow app he was building at the time let you do short mood and energy…
Read the full article →Similarities and differences between business and engineering strategies
Will Larson on engineering strategy Strategy is just diagnosis, guiding principles and set of coherent actions Engineering strategy – honest diagnosis and practical approach Mock "Widget and Hammer" example – the same set of assumptions might be honest and dishonest, depending on the situation.…
Read the full article →The notes from Jeff Bezos and Lex Friedman conversation
I recently tuned into an episode of Lex Fridman's podcast featuring Jeff Bezos, and it was quite the intellectual journey. They touched on everything from the nuances of success in theoretical physics to Amazon's futuristic endeavors like lunar power stations. Bezos, with his unique inventor's lens,…
Read the full article →The benefits of starting small, but deep with your product
During my career I’ve been working on multiple green-field products, and quite often, when we were prioritising jobs-to-be-done and evaluating a market opportunity, we ended up choosing a generic value proposition appealing to a wider audience, not a narrow laser-focused option. As an example from…
Read the full article →Theoretical product management – application and limitations
Throughout my career I never experienced a company with a product development process working as described in product management books. In larger companies there was often a specification – quite hard to follow and mostly ignored. In smaller startups, everyone just worked in an established way of…
Read the full article →3 anti-patterns of product managers’ behaviour
In her book "Escaping the build trap," Melissa Perri describes what happens to product managers when they misunderstand their role and push too hard in one direction. I can attest from my own experience that effective product development requires a lot of balance. So let me share a paraphrase of the…
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