What essay or article have you read that has had a significant impact on how you think about business, markets, entrepreneurship and/or technology?
2/ Thanks for all the generous ideas on essays/articles. Here are the ones I'd personally put into the hall of fame
This one by @spolsky on cannibalizing your complement
joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/str…
@spolsky 3/ This podcast with @bgurley and @patrick_oshag and its discussion of network effects
investorfieldguide.com/gurley/
@spolsky @bgurley @patrick_oshag 4/ This one on Evolution & Revolution as Organizations Grow shared by a @CBinsights newsletter subscriber is great in framing the challenges of scaling
hbr.org/1998/05/evolut…
@spolsky @bgurley @patrick_oshag @CBinsights 5/ summarized the Evolution v Revolution article here
I do recommend reading the whole thing, however
@spolsky @bgurley @patrick_oshag @CBinsights 6/ Status-as-a-Service by @eugenewei is 🔥🔥
What makes it special is that it's long AF and detailed & still immensely readable
He's a special writer for the clarity he brings to topics while talking like a human the whole time
eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19…
@spolsky @bgurley @patrick_oshag @CBinsights @eugenewei 7/ @pmarca with a great reminder abt markets
Reminded of this Warren Buffett maxim
"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."
pmarchive.com/guide_to_start…
@spolsky @bgurley @patrick_oshag @CBinsights @eugenewei @pmarca 8/ "Management is (Still) Not Leadership"
very helpful for me as I def conflated the two prior
helped provide some clarity on where to seek help as we scale @CBinsights
hbr.org/2013/01/manage…
thx @nickseguin for flagging this one
@spolsky @bgurley @patrick_oshag @CBinsights @eugenewei @pmarca @nickseguin 9/ Great talk by Peter Kaufman on the Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking
Discusses Einstein’s 5 ascending levels of cognitive prowess
5: smart
4: intelligent
3: brilliant
2: genius
1: simple
Simple transcends genius
latticeworkinvesting.com/category/peter…
@spolsky @bgurley @patrick_oshag @CBinsights @eugenewei @pmarca @nickseguin 10/ Five ways to build a $100M biz by @chrija featuring his 🐁, 🦌, 🐘 framework was very clarifying in @CBinsights early days (esp in figuring out which markets not to attack)
Also, killer dataviz as you’ll see attached :)
christophjanz.blogspot.com/2014/10/five-w…
@spolsky @bgurley @patrick_oshag @CBinsights @eugenewei @pmarca @nickseguin @chrija 11/ Going to use this to record concepts I've liked from various sources (to remind myself)
My favorite concept from @AnnieDuke's Thinking in Bets was that of "resulting" - our tendency to equate the quality of a decision with the quality of its outcome
Def been guilty of this
12/ "The 4 Myths of Bundling" by @shishirmehrotra
Very detailed, thoughtful analysis which challenged some preconceptions I had and also taught me a lot about the concept of bundling
coda.io/@shishir/four-…
13/ "The 3 Sides of Risk" by @morganhousel
1. The odds you will get hit
2. The avg consequences of getting hit
3. The tail-end consequences of getting hit
It’s the third that’s hardest to learn, and can often only be learned through experience
collaborativefund.com/blog/the-three…
14/ “Fake activity is great for making yourself feel better, but lousy for actual results“
Loved the examples in this. So easy to confuse activity with progress.
scotthyoung.com/blog/2020/05/0…
15/ Systems vs goals has been written about a lot but found this by @JamesClear to be among most concise & cogent
"goals are good for planning your progress and systems are good for actually making progress"
jamesclear.com/goals-systems
16/ “the better the startup is doing, the more chaos there is...is one of the few startup problems that growth doesn’t solve - in fact, it’s caused by growth.”
Fantastic practical & actionable essay on scaling from 50 to 500 by @DavidSacks
medium.com/craft-ventures…
17/ this flies in the face of so much mgmt drivel today which is why it's so great
"Somebody would ask me if he could get back to me about something next week, and I would reply ‘how about tomorrow morning?"
linkedin.com/pulse/amp-up-f…
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