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25 Dec, 22 tweets, 6 min read
A recap of tweets & threads on success, fulfillment, tranquility, and on discovering the path for ourselves:

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 If we want success, we must first define it for ourselves.

Too many of us inherit our family’s, friends’, colleagues’, media’s portrayal of it.

It took me a couple of decades to figure out my personal heuristic for success:
2/
 Tactics are tempting.
Don’t just seek the right Tactics.
Seek the right Principles & Mindset.

This observation is the foundation of much of my writing.
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 20 ideas to consider
4/
 Some notes on viewing our life & work differently
5/
 High ROI concepts to learn
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 Authority vs. Validity of ideas
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 Prerequisites for fulfillment
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 Are you How-first, What-first, or Why-first?
(note: it’s possible to change these defaults)
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 No matter what you’re doing, take the time to understand The Real Job
(note: The Real Job isn’t just the sum of all *tasks* you perform on the job)
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 Consider shifting from a Goal-driven mindset to an Interest-driven mindset
(related to cultivating curiosity)
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 Asking questions isn’t a weakness
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 For clear thinking
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 Avoid thinking in extremes
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 Concepts that aren’t as highly correlated as they might appear
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 Easy to mistake these, hard to backtrack from the mistake
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 To be miserable, do this
(therefore, don't do this)
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 Things not to do after achieving success
18/
 Who has the answer? I don’t know.
19/
 The Mind and The Self
20/
 If I can condense what brings me tranquility in 1 tweet, it would be this tweet
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24 Dec
A recap of tweets & threads on organizational psychology, organizational behavior, and company culture:

(strap in, this will be a wild ride)

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 The fundamental framework to make sense of organizational conduct:
2/
 Wondering why your company has suddenly become less fun for you as a builder? This framework might help explain it:
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22 Dec
A How-to for Creative Ideas

1) Step out of the GTD mindset
2) Identify the main goals
3) Eliminate core assumptions
4) Ignore trade-offs
5) Connect unrelated concepts
6) Solicit many ideas
7) Take a break, percolate
8) Simulate the promising ideas
9) Validate the surviving ideas
The trouble with most companies w.r.t. creativity
A thread on preparing oneself for creative work
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18 Dec
First-time founders, CEOs, and even employees should understand the playbook of the Incompetent Leader (IL).

The IL is savvy & charismatic, and excels at 4 things:
1) Feign competence
2) Create confusion
3) Buy time
4) Fail up

The IL playbook & what to do about it
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The IL’s most favorite move is simple: Buy Time

The IL’s 2nd most favorite move is: Buy More Time.

After doing this a few times, the IL’s masterstroke is: Fail Up.

The IL will repeat this a few times over a 20-30 year career to reach “spectacular success”

Here’s how it works:
Once upon a time:

IL joins a new company, with much fanfare from the CEO, who really wants this to work out.

Remember, the IL is incapable of making a significant, singular impact.

IL doesn’t want anyone to know this.

So what does IL do?

IL sets the playbook in motion.
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15 Dec
”It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
—A Wise Person

What we learn in school & must unlearn in business & life:
(1/10)
1/
 In school:
If X is true then the opposite of X must be false.

In business & life:
If X is a good idea, the opposite of X can also be a good idea.

(h/t Rory Sutherland)
2/
 In school:
Teacher provides a rubric, you follow the rubric to a tee, you deserve an A.

In business & life:
Most of the time, there is no rubric.
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13 Dec
A thread of resources for aspiring & new Product Managers:

(should also be useful for Eng, Design, Data Science, Mktg, Ops folks who want to get better at PM work or want to build more empathy for your PM friends ☺️)

(oh, and pls also share *your* favorite resources below)

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Product Management - Start Here by @cagan
(hard to go wrong if you start with Marty Cagan’s work)

svpg.com/product-manage…
2/
Tips for Breaking into PM by @sriramk
(I’ve recommended this thread in my DMs more often than any other thread, by a pretty wide margin)

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12 Dec
Product Wars.

Some say: understand users, have a strategy, take the time to build an amazing & delightful product

Others say: just build, ship quick & often, experiment, assess user reactions, learn, repeat

Both camps have evidence.

So what’s really going on?

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(A)
Neither approach is as successful as advertised.

It’s just classic survivorship bias.

The successful ones try to dissect the elements of the approach that made their product or company successful, tweet about it, write books about it. And they do this with high confidence.
(B)
It depends on the type & stage of product.

An approach that works for a late-stage product can fail miserably for an early-stage product.

An approach that works for a b2b product can fail miserably for a consumer product.
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