TJ - TJ's Blog - Page 23

How to be like Steve Jobs

Step 1: Don't be like Steve Jobs. Down Memory Lane The first iPhone came out in 2007. Whether or not you were part of the…

What to Build and Why

If a product is only as good as its feedback loops, then only the feedback of the customer matters. There will be many stakeholders, but…

Culture & Belonging

Building a culture of belonging in a company is hard. Stanford's Huggy Rao says that the best cultures create a sense of mutual ownership, where "I own…

When Code and Law Collide

A recent filing in a TCPA case uses source code to back up claims made by the plaintiff. The filing is interesting because it shows how hard…

Have we been SWOT-ing all Wrong?

Introduction If you've spent any time in a strategic planning exercise, you might hear SWOT thrown around like a verb, like a needed activity to…

Aviation, Automation & Human Intervention

Tesla Autopilot, Boeing 737 Max, and the US Supreme Court decision on the TCPA make an odd group. But, they all rest on the increasingly fluid boundary…

Rules to fight FOMO (and their Exceptions)

For a few years now, I've had a rule: I never read a book the year that it comes out. I initiated it a few…

5 Business Books I wish I had read sooner

Summer is upon us, and so are the many recommendations of books that one should read. I’m a big fan of reading lists—they keep my reading queue…

The Genius with 1000 Helpers

If genius results from untiring work over long periods of time, then every founder building a company is a genius. They know the customer, the…

On Selflessness

Tucked in The Checklist Manifesto, an already quick read, is a little manifesto for any learned profession. The author—Atul Gawande—calls them the four expectations of…

Security and 5G

When it comes to bandwidth, 5G is like having your cake and eating it too, in this case the cake is double chocolate, no fat*.…

On the Money Your Product Makes

Things have to be simpler than the alphabet soup of three and four letter acronyms that are used to gauge a product's usefulnes. The argument…