Why is the world obsessed with building so many similar products and companies, is it that many VCs are just sheep and throw money at startups in a large and growing market? Or is it that the world needs variety? current solutions are not serving the market well? the market is big and more companies can co-exist and thrive? For example, I don’t work
Year: 2019
Recently I was introduced to this book by a friend. I had known about the book for a while as I have read Made to Stick by the same authors a few years ago and liked their lucid style of capturing complex concepts in simple metaphors. Here is some notes I made as I listened to the audiobook on Scribd – Bigger popcorn bucket
“I’m still young, I try to always look at what people significantly younger tan me are doing. What’s the next thing? I like to imagine the world five years from now Or imagine what I want the world yo look like five years from now” Brain Chesky “I have always followed my gut – and sometimes it’s been really lonely. When you look at
“0 to 1 product management is simple but very hard to get right, billions of dollars and months of time and effort could be saved if PMs follow a few basic principles” Does product management vary between before and after product-market-fit (PMF)? This is the fundamental question that led me to research this idea of 0 to 1 product manager and how his/her role
Don’t compromise, ever! – She will never eat food that she doesn’t like even when the food is lying around in the bowl whole day and she has not eaten anything. Don’t eat if not hungry – She won’t eat food when she is not hungry how ever much you plead or force. Play like a dog – She always loves to play, in
“He washed his hands and feet, and just as he reached for his boot, an eagle snatched it away! The boot turned upside down as it lifted, and a poisonous snake dropped out. The eagle circled and brought the boot back, saying, “My helpless reverence for you made this necessary…Mohammad thanked the eagle and said, “What I thought was rudeness was really love. You
“If you do the right thing, the right thing will come to you” Berry Gordy “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable man doesn’t do that; all progress comes from unreasonable people” G.B. Shaw “I have yet to meet a scientist who wants to maintain status quo” Eli Broad “That urgency, daily drive, that constant self-questioning integral in editing a paper,
“Inspiration = Potential Energy (PE) = m. g. hAction = Kinetic Energy (KE) = 1/2 . m . v(squared)“ It’s easy to get inspired. Open Youtube and you can watch a million inspirational videos, average video is about 15 minutes. If you watch all million videos it would take about 28.5 years of your life. Funny thing is you will still be where you
अपि स्वर्णमयी लङ्का न मे लक्ष्मण रोचतेजननि जन्म भूमिश्चा स्वर्गादपि गरीयसि // Api Svarnamayi Lanka Na Me Lakshmana Rochate/Janani Janmabhumischa Svargadapi Gariyasi // English translation of the above Sanskrit Subhashita by Prof. S.B. Raghunathacharya, former Vice-Chancellor R.S. Vidyapeet, Tirupati is as follows – O Lakshmana! I wouldn’t like this city of Lanka, though it is full of gold, because the mother and the birthplace
“Don’t worry about reputation but about character. You should build character by practicing empathy, practicing moral courage, practicing determination.” Jacqueline Novogratz “The revolution is going to happen without us. We were sure that software was going to change the world, and we worried that if we didn’t join the digital revolution soon, it would pass us by.” Bill Gates “We sometimes fall flat on