Conor Dewey

🐪 Notes on The Making of Prince of Persia

The Making of Prince of Persia outlines Jordan Mechner's journal entries describing how an idea progressed over time and eventually became a best-selling video game...

🧮 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...

💠 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..

🧠 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...

📈 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...

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