The book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck destroyed my idea of happiness.
It tells simple truths we forget in everyday life.
Five lessons from the book:
Take responsibility
You’ll never run out of problems.
True happiness comes when you find the problems you enjoy solving.
You’re always wrong
Mark Manson’s law of avoidance:
“The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it.”
Have the balls to challenge your beliefs.
Reverse-engineer execution
Action comes before motivation.
D…
Method I was taught at BCG for breaking down a hard problem: 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹 > 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗻𝘁 > 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹.
1. Start with customer calls while you’re still generating hypotheses to make sure you're smoking out all of the possible issues.
2. Use data to size and validate the things you’re hearing.
3. Return to customers at the end to make sure what you…
Perplexity’s API only has one endpoint but despite that, if you familiarize yourself with it, you can craft some pretty useful workflows.
In this week’s Knowledge Series, I take a look at how product teams can take their Perplexity skills to the next level and build an automated competitor analysis email that keeps you in the loop with ne…
The five different portfolio career profiles (my working thesis):
The True Specialist: someone who operates in a niche, offering a specific skillset to a specific industry, in a way that drives a specific outcome. They have similar clients and work on similar types of projects.
The General Specialist: someone who operates in a less nichey …