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And very little customization to constantly tinker with. I also love Apple Notes and have found myself much more productive since I stopped switching apps and settled on using Notes.

*The worst part of Zoom being down:* Being forced to use Microsoft Teams for meetings.

Agreed. I didn't understand this part. I exclusively use Apple Notes for typed and handwritten notes. I also find the search functionality to be excellent at finding stuff I need, so I'm not sure why the author bashes Apple Notes search either.

Agree. $50 is totally reasonable for a custom domain and free email sending. You'd pay that in 2-3 months using hosted Ghost, Mailchimp, ConvertKit, Wordpress, etc.

I think it is probably just another revenue grab. Most people who care enough are willing to pay $50 (I have a free newsletter about product management and willingly paid the $50).

The alternative is a self-hosted or SaaS subscription to something like Ghost or Mailchimp. $50 seems like a better deal to me.

Just wrote about something similar and what we can learn about GPT-3 inputs. Applicable for lots of domains but written to product managers.

https://productsolving.substack.com/p/openais-gpt-3-will-cha...

I decided to push this one out a week and am publishing a piece on what we can learn about priming problems from GPT-3. Hope you like that one as well.

This is a great list of things product managers should do. Especially around managing time and how to do that effectively.

One of the things that makes this less overwhelming is flipping it on its head and thinking about what a product manager shouldn't do. Warren Buffett talks about this idea of "The Institutional Imperative" and what happens when you aren't aware of it and allow the defaults to run your work. It's a great complement to this article, I am sending out a post on Wednesday applying his idea to product management. productsolving.substack.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23825744

Sure. I also wonder if Perrel is hitting on the idea of avoiding competition by Thiel.

https://mastersofscale.com/peter-thiel-escape-the-competitio...

Yeah -- I think him and those like him (Tiago Forte, etc) would argue that they have "remixed" the idea enough to call it their own... which is highly debatable IMO.

I’ve already learned most of the curriculum from engaging with so much of his free content.

This is how I feel about a lot of these online course offerings as well. You aren't paying for the content, they make that available for free. You are paying for the accountability. If you are a high-agency person, you will figure out how to use the free stuff to accomplish the same thing.

This is true. The only way you actually learn something here is by taking ideas as a starting point to identify where they are prevalent in your own life.

I never even thought about this being a problem until I watched the video. It's amazing the types of things we have to build algorithms to handle that our brain does naturally.

I totally agree with your first point, and you lost me on the last sentence. Competition is a great data point, but just because you don't have any competition doesn't mean you aren't solving a real problem.

#20 - The Bike-Shed Affect seems to plague everyone. In fact, this article from Perrell is what inspired me to write about how to use collaborative meeting agendas to stop this from happening.

TL;DR: Force everyone to make the simple and easy decisions asynchronously before you get into a synchronous meeting. This forces you to talk about the big, hard problems when you are meeting live. It has saved our team hours of wasted meeting time.

https://productsolving.substack.com/p/bike-shed-effect

Totally agree about RSS. I think the best thing about email is that authors get to build their own connection to the audience. Either way, there are options to make this happen if you want it: https://feedbin.com/blog/2016/02/03/subscribe-to-email-newsl...

This is pretty neat. Newsletter discovery is one of the biggest challenges right now. So many people are getting bogged down with crappy newsletter because they can't find the no-name authors that are generating top shelf content.

Would be cool if there is a review/ranking mechanism to help the best boil to the top.

I almost said this, but... Jira is bad, but it’s definitely not the worst (in my experience).

It’s close though.

The Google Productivity Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Mail) apps for iPadOS.

Talking about the things that really matter is critical for product and company success.

People will naturally talk about the easiest problems and the lowest stake decisions unless you actively combat against it. I have found using collaborative meeting agendas helps a lot.

I wrote about this a month or so back here: https://productsolving.substack.com/p/bike-shed-effect

This site is really cool, but I think the person who took the screenshots should charge their phone.

Author here.

I would agree with you. Being able to understand what activities go on downstream (solution space) of your work makes you even more effective. Glad you enjoyed the article.

This ^

I wish there was a way to take notes on my iPad and join the call from my iPad. This it the main thing that keeps me from making the leap 100%.

Super neat project. I am a print debugger myself and will definitely use this at some point in the future. For scenarios where PySnooper might be overkill and you just want to see the value of specific variables, I wrote a port of the Rust `dbg` macro for both Python and Go that are pretty nifty when looking at values really quickly:

https://github.com/tylerwince/pydbg

https://github.com/tylerwince/godbg

end-users may be experts on the problems and frustrations they are having, but not on the design solutions

This is the key here. We have continuously designed our healthcare system for “quick-fix” instead of the right solution that takes longer. Even the HITECH push for EHR adoption and Meaningful Use - twisted the arms of providers to find and use an EHR before they could be built to positively impact patient care.