Reading
🧮 Notes on Four Thousand Weeks
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals from Oliver Burkeman is yet another way to frame productivity and time management, but this one takes a refreshing approach...
Conor Dewey
Data Science
📲 Towards Modern Data Apps
It feels like now some especially interesting things are coming to fruition in the data space. We’ve heard about The Modern Data Stack. We’ve heard about The Future of Work. But what happens when they meet?
Life
🎒 Quick Rules for Travel
I’ve been bouncing around from place to place, learning a ton about my preferences for traveling and environments in general. These preferences have started to inform a set of “rules” that I’m going to apply to future travel...
Reflection
📆 2021 Year in Review
This is my third annual review in which I look back on how the last 365 days turned out for me across a number of areas. I'll follow the same structure as last year's review...
Tech
🧰 Tools I'm Loving Right Now
It's important to remember that outcomes are what matters, not the tools. But there's also a reason why tools are such a conversational centerpiece. Tools influence those outcomes a lot of the time, sometimes in a pretty big way...
Data Science
📜 NLP and Self-Serve Analytics
As GPT-3 and its counterparts have come into the mainstream, I've begun seeing products and conversations about the interaction between Natural Language Processing and data analytics appearing more and more frequently...
Growth
📓 Reforge Recap: Advanced Growth Strategy
The idea here is to zoom out and understand bigger-picture elements to how you grow rather than focusing in on specific tactics. As always, I recommend checking out the original content for a deeper dive...
Reading
💠 Notes on Shape Up
I made my way through Shape Up last month and really enjoyed it. Shape Up is a methodology for product development teams put together by Ryan Singer and the folks at Basecamp..
Career
🏔 The First 90 Days
The framework that I see repeated most often involves breaking things down by the first 30-60-90 days in a new role. While these numbers are mostly arbitrary, I tend to like thinking about things this way...
Product
🗺 A Mental Model for Product Design
There's a lot of complexity to unpack in how product design happens. My model for how the design process works has gotten less and less fuzzy over the years, but there's still a bit more clarity to be desired...
Reading
🧠 Notes on The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is a collection of Naval’s wisdom and experience from the last ten years, shared as a curation of his most insightful ideas. These are my favorite ideas and excerpts...
Reading
📈 Notes on Measure What Matters
If you've been around software for long enough then you've undoubtedly run into Objectives and Key Results at some point. John Doerr goes deep into implementation details through lots of case studies...