Perspectives on product design, management and growth

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In this letter we will explore ideas and topics on how we can design better products, manage them succefuly and achieving massive growth and success

🧵 Weekly Thread

High Agency - by Shreyas Doshi

High agency is an essential attitude you have to learn if you want your product to be a massive success.

The world is not fair, so you have to know how to adapt to make the best of what you have.

In this thread, you'll learn about what is high agency and how to learn and develop this trait

Shreyas Doshi @shreyas Let’s talk about High Agency: an attitude I’ve seen in every successful product manager & leader I’ve known. Some ppl are born/raised with High Agency. It can also be developed later in life. High agency is a prerequisite for making a profound impact in one's life & work 1/20 7:13 PM • Jun 27, 2020 6.7K likes • 1.5K retweets

📝 Timestamped Note

Tony Fadell — Stories of Steve Jobs, Product Design, Good Assholes vs. Bad Assholes, and More - The Tim Ferris Show

If you design and manage a product, there is no better person than Tony Fadell to listen to for tips and advice.
Tony has been behind the design of the iPod & Nest thermostat and many other great products that redefined their category.
In this talk, Tony talks about his new book, how to manage people, his current work at Future Shape, and his work to combat climate change.

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📰 Article of The Week

Growth Loops are the New Funnels - by Brian Balfour

When designing and building your product, you need a sustainable growth strategy. Not just relying on funnels that require increasing the input more and more to get additional output.

Instead, this article will introduce the concept of growth loops that turns the output back into an input, therefore, gaining more output, compounding the outcome of the input over time.

Growing is the entire reason why products and companies exist (especially in venture-backed startups). Companies that continually grow also provide the largest positive outcomes.

Growth Loops are the New Funnels — Reforge

While growth funnels were a great starting point for setting metrics, goals, and strategy, these funnels do not accurately represent how the fastest growing products grow. It is time to focus on growth loops instead. Here’s why and how.

Reforge•Brian Balfour

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