Trevor McKendrick - Be in first person

Good luck this week

Trevor

Internet storytelling favors first person (tweet)

Good tweet:

“Whether it’s on YouTube, blogs, socials, etc., internet storytelling favors first person ‘I made/did/think this’ over the third person ‘look at what these other people are making/doing/thinking’ that’s common in broadcast media.”

Race & the Declining Lifetime Risk of Imprisonment (article)

Good news

Great list of questions to ask in an interview (twitter thread)

Specifically for PMs, but I like them because they reveal how somebody thinks.

First one is "Describe a product you worked on that didn't succeed as you hoped”

The Biggest Bluff (book)

A journalist becomes a professional poker player in less than a year and ends up winning a major tournament.

Fun fact: did you know the guy who just won the World Series of Poker’s Main Event is a Lambda School/BloomTech grad? Congrats to Daniel Weinman!

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