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Common Strategic Decision-Making Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
December 14, 2022

What Is Product Strategy, and Why Is It Important?
November 11, 2022

The Feynman Mental Model Technique
August 06, 2022

Great, Good, Okay, and Bad Product Managers
July 04, 2022

Fundamentals for Recruiters that Make People Want to Work with You
April 18, 2022

Five Habits for the Next Five Years - First Year
January 01, 2022

Meditation Roadmap
October 05, 2021

What Are Mission, Vision, and Values?
September 28, 2021

Newsletter V1
September 05, 2021

From Reactive Planning Model to Natural Planning Model
June 16, 2021

A Letter to My Friend - Create
June 13, 2021

Skydiving Terminal Velocity
May 23, 2021

My Story - The Dance Teacher
May 09, 2021

Last Mile in a Software Project
March 22, 2021

Five Habits for the Next Five Years
January 02, 2021

Books

No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs
April 04, 2021

Zettel

At High Utilization Levels, Queues Grow Much Faster than They Can Shrink
January 06, 2023

Capacity Utilization Increases Queues Exponentially
January 06, 2023

Queue Capacity Utilization Allows You to Predict Many Queues Characteristics
January 06, 2023

High-States/Congested Queues
December 15, 2022

Quickly Apply Extra Resources to an Emerging Queue
December 15, 2022

Control WIP by Relaxing the Targets for a Unit Cost at Production
November 25, 2022

Demand-Focused Approaches to Control WIP
November 25, 2022

Identify in Advance Which Requirements You Would Consider Eliminating or Relaxing
November 23, 2022

Types of Applications
November 22, 2022

Control WIP by Shedding Requirements
November 21, 2022

When WIP Is High, Purge Low-Value Projects
November 21, 2022

Anchoring Bias
November 20, 2022

Confirmation Bias
November 20, 2022

Groupthink
November 20, 2022

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
November 17, 2022

Chief Operation Officer (COO)
November 17, 2022

Factors to Consider when Making a Strategic Decision
November 17, 2022

Mental Models Overcome Cognitive Biases
November 17, 2022

Operations Departments of a Tech Company
November 17, 2022

Strategic Decisions that Impact the Company's Long-Term Success
November 17, 2022

SWOT Analysis
November 17, 2022

The Economics of Holding WIP Changes when Queue Size Changes
November 16, 2022

Zombie Projects
November 16, 2022

Startup Operations
November 15, 2022

Block All Demand when WIP Reaches Its Upper Limit
November 14, 2022

Economic Waste that Queues Create
November 14, 2022

Most of the Damage Done by a Queue Is Caused by High-Queues States
November 14, 2022

Product Strategy Roadmap
November 10, 2022

Product Strategy Tools
November 10, 2022

Product Strategy
November 10, 2022

Fixed WIP Couples the Batch Sizes of Adjacent Processes
November 09, 2022

Slack and Queue Capacity Utilization Are Correlated
November 08, 2022

When Response Time Is Important, Measure Response Time
November 08, 2022

Enhance the Effectiveness of WIP Constraints by Cross-Training Workers
November 07, 2022

The Kanban System Doesn't Make Assumptions About the Location of Bottlenecks
November 07, 2022

The Local Constraints of the Kanban System Have an Impressive Feedback Speed
November 07, 2022

Kanban Uses WIP Constraints to Control the Cycle Time
November 03, 2022

Kanban Pull Principle
November 02, 2022

Cross-Functional Team
November 01, 2022

Theory of Constraints (TOC) - Elevating the Constraint
October 28, 2022

Theory of Constraints (TOC)
October 28, 2022

Effects of Set a Limit on WIP (Work in Process)
October 24, 2022

Queues Randomly Spin Seriously Out of Control and Remain in This State for Long Periods
October 24, 2022

Small Batch-Size Activities Increase Trust
October 20, 2022

Social Expectancy Theory
October 20, 2022

Queues in Product Development
October 10, 2022

Impact Bias
September 12, 2022

Kanban
September 10, 2022

Work in Process (WIP)
September 10, 2022

Round-Robin Scheduling
August 13, 2022

First Principles Thinking
August 06, 2022

Article: The 5 Dysfunctions of Product Management Teams
July 09, 2022

Think and Grow Rich - The Major Attributes of Leadership
June 11, 2022

Proprietary Product Distribution
June 09, 2022

Personas
June 05, 2022

Value Proposition
June 05, 2022

Ethos
June 04, 2022

Article: What Happens When You Stop Eating All Sugar
May 05, 2022

Flow Efficiency
April 24, 2022

Article: An Effortless Way to Improve Your Memory
April 22, 2022

Cycle Time
April 21, 2022

Startup Burn Rate
April 09, 2022

Cost of Delay
April 07, 2022

Business Agility
April 03, 2022

Product Management
March 31, 2022

Product Manager
March 30, 2022

Product Owner
March 30, 2022

The Pyramid Principle
March 27, 2022

Startup CEO
March 22, 2022

Startup Co-CEOs Problems
March 22, 2022

Startup Founding Team Roles
March 22, 2022

Operating Outside a Circle of Competence
February 26, 2022

Building and Maintaining a Circle of Competence
February 25, 2022

Circle of Competence
February 25, 2022

Functional Fixedness
February 14, 2022

The Four Types of Consequences
January 05, 2022

Human Nature Explanations
December 12, 2021

Little's Law
December 06, 2021

Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD)
December 01, 2021

CSD Matrix
November 18, 2021

The Benefits of Formal Education
November 15, 2021

The MILES Framework
November 15, 2021

Reality-Growth Mindset
November 11, 2021

Agile Methodologies
November 07, 2021

Scrum Master
November 07, 2021

Diffusion of Innovations - Adopter Categories
November 03, 2021

Twelve Principles of Agile Software
October 29, 2021

Phonological Loop
October 05, 2021

Visuospatial Sketchpad
October 05, 2021

Innovation
September 25, 2021

Purposeful Stupidity
September 19, 2021

Exponential Technology
September 02, 2021

Moore's Law
September 02, 2021

M/G/1 Queue
August 31, 2021

Octave Interval
August 30, 2021

LNO Effectiveness Framework
August 29, 2021

Virality Potential Criteria
August 22, 2021

Winner's Curse
August 22, 2021

Network Effects
August 19, 2021

Accountability Psychological Trigger
August 18, 2021

Authority Psychological Trigger
August 18, 2021

Vedas
August 17, 2021

Endocrine Glands and Chakras Correlation
August 14, 2021

Fight or Flight
August 14, 2021

Thalamus
August 14, 2021

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
August 11, 2021

Base Chakra
August 07, 2021

Hormones
August 07, 2021

Testosterone
August 07, 2021

Queue Capacity Utilization
August 04, 2021

Queue Service Process
August 04, 2021

Anecdotal Evidence
August 01, 2021

Cognitive Bias
August 01, 2021

Heuristic
August 01, 2021

Inductive Argument
August 01, 2021

Critical Path
July 28, 2021

Markov Process
July 24, 2021

Queueing Theory
July 24, 2021

VP of Engineering
July 23, 2021

Asymmetric Opportunity
July 22, 2021

Newsvendor Model
July 22, 2021

Venture Backable Business
July 14, 2021

Set-Based Concurrent Engineering
July 13, 2021

Marginal Analysis
July 08, 2021

Key-Value Database
July 06, 2021

Sunk Cost
July 06, 2021

Brandolini's Law
July 04, 2021

Design System
July 02, 2021

Pareto Paradox
July 02, 2021

Pareto Principle
July 02, 2021

Matrix Determinant
July 01, 2021

Vector Space
June 27, 2021

Proxy Variable
June 23, 2021

Goodhart's Law
June 22, 2021

Benjamin Franklin's Schedule
June 16, 2021

Radical Delegation Framework
June 09, 2021

Natural Planning Model
June 07, 2021

Reactive Planning Model
June 06, 2021

Spacing Effect (Learning)
June 05, 2021

Opportunity Cost
June 03, 2021

Context Switching
June 02, 2021

Focus Brings Unconscious Support
May 31, 2021

Ownership May Prevent Parkinson's Law
May 26, 2021

Daily Scrum
May 24, 2021

Brainstorming
May 13, 2021

Distributed Cognition
May 12, 2021

Slack and Efficiency
May 10, 2021

ACID (Database Systems)
April 26, 2021

The Threefold Model for Identifying Daily Work
April 24, 2021

People Systematically Overlook Subtractive Changes
April 23, 2021

System Mental Models
April 23, 2021

Decision Mental Models
April 22, 2021

The Four-Criteria Model for Choosing Actions in the Moment
April 22, 2021

Smart Contracts
April 19, 2021

Atkinson-Shiffrin Memory Model
April 11, 2021

Long-Term Memory
April 11, 2021

Short-Term Memory
April 11, 2021

Ideas in Open Loop
April 10, 2021

Pleasure Principle (Psychology)
April 09, 2021

Procrastination
April 09, 2021

Hyperbolic Discounting
April 06, 2021

Mental Models
April 06, 2021

Dopamine
April 04, 2021

Social Media Addiction
April 04, 2021

Dan S. Kennedy
April 03, 2021

Product/Market Fit
April 02, 2021

Organic Social Media
March 30, 2021

Paid Social Media
March 30, 2021

Human Multitasking
March 29, 2021

Startup Accelerator
March 14, 2021

Venture Building's Startups Problems
March 14, 2021

Venture Capital
March 14, 2021

Startup Incubator
March 09, 2021

Startup Studio
March 08, 2021

Proof of Work
March 07, 2021

Scrum
February 25, 2021

Inflation
February 18, 2021

Money Supply
February 18, 2021

The 90-90 Rule
February 07, 2021

Last Mile Problem
February 06, 2021

Dunning-Kruger Effect
January 30, 2021

Flow State (Psychology)
January 28, 2021

Agile
January 25, 2021

Law of Triviality
January 07, 2021

Parkinson's Law
January 07, 2021

Lightning Decision Jam
August 10, 2020

AIDA Model
August 08, 2020

Design - Density
July 03, 2020

Psychological Trigger
June 29, 2020

Better Writing
June 09, 2020

Facts Don't Change Our Minds
June 01, 2020

Information and Digital Content in Modern Society
May 30, 2020

Reading Metacognitively
May 29, 2020

The Feynman Technique
May 29, 2020

Sleep in Two Shifts
May 26, 2020

Chunking and Memory
May 24, 2020

Metaphors to Explain the Brain
May 23, 2020

The Evolution of Anxiety
May 22, 2020

Zettelkasten
May 21, 2020