radical candour from a deep generalist
Proudly bought this yesterday – made a big difference in my frequency of blogging – whether offline or online and I love the ease of linking to stuff with an easy button in Safari.
To top it off – the developer emailed me back when I left a comment on my purchase.
Boom.
Okay – update. Finished but I have to say I loved the lean startup much more but maybe this book is good for the right folks. I can imagine some big company folks getting a lot out of it.
I gleaned a few tricks and might even refer to it as a good reference guide. I try to remind myself that sometimes it’s okay to not read or dig every chapter but still love the book.
On to the next one!
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Picked this one up at the airport on the way out – The Startup Way.
Already digging it and learning some new tricks.
Ray has been doing the podcast circuit with the book being out but this was one of my favorite ones.
I don’t love Forbes but this article captures some of the salient points I am trying to grok and put into my work practice.
First is to have an “idea meritocracy” that spans across meaningful work and meaningful relationships.
I like this – may the best idea win and of course we all want rewarding work with good people.
I also like his framework for putting this into place with serious meeting rigour and a culture that supports radical transparency and radical candor. (This is why I am super excited that the next book up is Radical Candor by Kim Scott.)
Within these concepts there are rules for open disagreement, discourse for challenging ideas (not the people) and some protocol for making sure that when a decision is made – everyone falls in line to support it, regardless of where you personally stand on the issue.
I need to get the book and dig in.
Also excited to try and implement better goal and learning this year with another notebook..
Descript – Transcription and Audio Editing
Listened to this yesterday and I find the model of editing audio via text so interesting.
I bet he eventually figures out simple video editing using audio as the manipulation paradigm,
Killer stuff.
Will be interesting to see where this all goes. Payments is a mostly a low margin business so this isn’t about making money but more about making it easier to pay for things.
Things being not just rides but I am still wondering if this is the playbook for domination or not.
I am still more interested in them getting into other countries and seeing if they can take all this stuff across countries or not.
Go-Jek buys three startups to advance its mobile payment business | TechCrunch:
I kind of want one – it’s looks amazing :: Daring Fireball: First Impressions of the New iMac Pro:
So Disney is buying part of Fox :: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fox-m-a-walt-disney/disney-deal-set-to-value-fox-at-more-than-75-billion-source-idUSKBN1E7348
Will be interesting to see how they play the OTT game from here on out – they have Fox doing their own online stuff, Disney is planning to build Disney online and with this deal they now control Hulu as well.
I don’t see the point in keeping them all going and I personally would prefer the killer Netflix competitor but would they use Hulu or go all in on a Disney only OTT play?
Also listen to this podcast with The Prof :: https://overcast.fm/+BcN1HLmuU – where The Prof talks about Disney going nuclear and making sure their content is only on their OTT property and somehow doing a Disney prime for content and access to Disney offline – the Theme Parks.
Recurring revenue FTW!
Will always have a special place in my heart for NSI as I was an advisor to them in the beginning and have many dear friends working there.
As a fellow VC I know fund-raising is hard but this is a great milestone for NSI and the Singapore ecosystem at large.
Congrats!
NSI Ventures Targets $125 Million Second Fund for Consumer Apps – Bloomberg
Great read from Mark on a troubling subject.
Zero tolerance – FTW.
Why We Must Have Zero Tolerance for Sexual Misconduct (Venture Capital Edition)
I need to drill into this more but it’s good:
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