habits
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🧱 The hardest things
The magic of product development appears to live in the complex things: the clever circuit design, the brilliant algorithm, the integration of many technologies. Observation suggests the opposite. Success is grounded in doing the simple thi…
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☝️ What do we mean by "First"?
What do we mean by Release “First”? Several things: First in the timeline of development. First thing we focus on during implementation. First priority. Simply put, implement the Big Green Button before implementing the actual deliverable…
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🔄 Platform Thinking is a habit
Platform Thinking in the context of product development has many parallels to effective habits in personal life. With personal exercise, healthy eating, getting enough sleep, and reading good books - these are difficult to start, but easy o…
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🔄 Closed-loop humans
What are some ways we as humans can close the loop? Listen Reflect Write Without these, we operate in a largely open-loop mode without the feedback we need to improve or correct our course. Action bias is good, but it helps to know we are…
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✏️ Effective Communication (Sketching)
Sketching is kind of like writing cursive—it engages a dynamic in our brains that inspires creativity. As we mostly use computers, it takes extra effort to pick up pen or pencil, but surprising things happen when we do. It engages broader a…
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💭 Thinking, Designing, Developing, Engineering ...
If we are thinking without writing, are we really thinking? If we are designing without sketching/drawing, are we really designing? If we are developing software without iterations/testing, are we really developing? If we are engineering wi…
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💪 Habits -- a critical ingredient in YOUR Personal Platform
We defined your platform as the collection of technology, tools, and processes that enable you to differentiate and consistently deliver your products and services. At a personal level, habits are critical – they enable us to do the boring/…