🎨📈My illustrated take on a favorite @shreyas thread: a primer on choosing, refining, and tracking product metrics

As a PM, I've referenced this guide countless times – it is applicable to PMs at all levels and provides non-obvious actionable steps. It is a true gem💎/ THREAD 1/ Before we begin, here is @shreyas original thread – all text and writing are his:

https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1304628719374544896

My new illustrated collab piece with @value is out! Here's a quick peek inside THREAD/

https://twitter.com/value/status/1328819329606029312

1/ First off – major props to @EricJorgenson and @naval for providing the content for this piece. Check out Eric's awesome thread of leverage here

https://twitter.com/EricJorgenson/status/1326925355064696832?s=20

Servant networking: serve, don't network

I’ve personally created more meaningful connections in the past three months than I have any calendar year of my career by changing my outlook on "networking". Here's how: THREAD/

andrewyu.substack.com/p/servant-netw… 1/ When Kobe Bryant was asked for his best advice on leadership, and his answer was simple: serve, don’t lead.

Similarly, we should apply the philosophy of servant leadership to networking:

Serve, don't network.

https://twitter.com/AndyCabistan/status/1222023652255748096?s=20

Introducing Handcrafted! A set of 100 hand drawn icons for iOS 14 gumroad.com/l/ruosi This project was an absolute joy to create, blending my passion for illustration with my experience in tech.

Each icon was meticulously hand drawn – each with their own personality, character, and imperfections 🎨

.@RoamResearch is the best tool for Product Managers – period.

I've spent a decade as an obsessive super user of productivity/knowledge management tools, and my entire 8+ year tech/PM career trying different tools. Here's why Roam is the best for PMs. THREAD: 1/

Problem statement:

A PM's life is hectic, too many meetings, tools, deliverables, open loops, etc

Proposed solution:

A networked thinking tool like Roam gets out the way so you can do what you do best: solve challenging problems and make amazing products

The visuals with the music is what really makes @PoolsideFM work. the video clips are curated with the same attention to detail as the whole experience

thanks @BardiaShahali for putting this back on my radar, my entire weekend has been so much more pleasant 😇 @niekdekker @jshmc thank u 🙏

.@tristanharris I was really surprised at this part in @SocialDilemma_ you mention no one was upset at bicycles when they first showed up (new tech)

Bicycle hysteria 1890s is often used as a well-known example for technophobia timeline.com/bicycles-blame… "bicycle face" was a thing – The Literary Digest, Sept. 7, 1895 (p. 548).

"It is claimed that over-exertion, the upright position on the wheel and the unconscious effort to maintain one’s balance tend to produce the “bicycle face.”

books.google.com/books?id=Eqk5A…

Here's my 3 day journey into @RoamResearch so far and why I like it + how to get started. As a 10+ year evernote user, if you are curious like I was it only takes < 5 min to get started and get a feel for the core functionality. Definitely worth a try. THREAD TIME (no emoji): 1/ Roam has often been described as a garden where your thoughts can germinate and grow, vs Evernote as a library and Notion as architecture. This is definitely accurate and we'll be using this analogy

https://twitter.com/anthilemoon/status/1294991516394565632

1// VISUALIZE VALUE GRAFFITI SERIES© // @visualizevalue @jackbutcher 2//

The concept of multiple discovery (simultaneous invention) is the hypothesis that most scientific discoveries and inventions are made independently and more or less simultaneously by multiple scientists and inventors

Some examples:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_m… 1600s: Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz both discover calculus.

1770s: Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Joseph Priestley discover oxygen.

1800s: Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace both describe natural selection.

🎨 thread of my misc. artwork –

Sydney (2017) Crossing Cook Strait, New Zealand (2017)

"If you added up all the space Manhattan devotes to cars, you'd have an area nearly 4x Central Park"

nytimes.com/2020/07/09/opi… super insightful, highly visual exploratory piece – I yearn for the day this happens!

1/ STIMULUS > CHOICE > CONTROL > DESIRE > DECISION > ACTION > IDENTITY

Combining principles from mindfulness @corymuscara , stoicism @dailystoic , habit forming behavior @JamesClear to break down the "space" in Frankl's quote – "Between stimulus and response there is a space" @corymuscara @dailystoic @JamesClear 2/
STIMULUS – whatever just happened

CHOICE – do you have a choice in this situation? (majority of the time yes, but some systemic issues you do not)

CONTROL – if yes, you have control exercise your free will, tap into your prefrontal cortex