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...
Latest
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...
Startups
🚀 What I Learned at Hugo
I'm a big believer that when you close any meaningful chapter, it's a worthwhile exercise to sit down and reflect on the most valuable things you learned from the experience...
Growth
📚 Product Growth Canon
Over the past few years, I've learned a lot as a product operator and data scientist on several growth teams. Along the way, I've collected resources that helped solidify my understanding of different concepts...
Reading
🕹 Notes on Designing Games
Designing Games is a book of game design concepts written to help practitioners make better games. It explores the mental models, tactics, and processes behind most of today's hit video games...
Life
🙏 25 Principles for 25 Years
It's my 25th birthday today. It's an exciting one, and also a bit of a weird one if I'm being honest. Of course, I feel the same that I did yesterday. That's always the case. But something about this particular number feels different...
Growth
🛠 Evaluating Growth Tool Ideas
You may not have heard of the term "growth tool" before but it's likely you have seen them before. Just to make sure we're all on the same page, I'll copy-paste the description from Trends.vc on the topic...
Life
💫 Finding Your Personal Metrics
It doesn't seem long ago that I was graduating from college and starting my first full-time job. This time in your life comes with a whirlwind of excitement and ambition. You're finally out in the real world...
Quantified Self
📊 Quantified Conor: Q2 2021
It's time for the sequel to my first quantified self-report earlier this year. I track various metrics to learn more about myself and my well-being. I do my best to publish some version of this report at the end of each quarter...
Reading
🧬 Notes on How to Live
Derek Sivers shares a collection of answers to the question of how to live. The ideas are concise and easy to digest, but provocative enough to keep you thinking for some time afterward...