And very little customization to constantly tinker with. I also love Apple Notes and have found myself much more productive since I stopped switching apps and settled on using Notes.
I am a card-carrying Microsoft hater and I have to say that I find Teams to be quite good all in all. Shockingly so in fact given my general expectations about Microsoft products. (I use Teams at work where I have no choice otherwise I would not touch it with a ten foot pole.)
Agreed. I didn't understand this part. I exclusively use Apple Notes for typed and handwritten notes. I also find the search functionality to be excellent at finding stuff I need, so I'm not sure why the author bashes Apple Notes search either.
Fair points. But I was going less off of raw capability here and more from how I've observed these tools to be used in the wild. It was very common for most people to dump things like contact info, recommendations, random links into Apple Notes and very very rarely search for what they put in (because they forgot what they put in). So you can search — it seems like the product isn't conducive to frequent recall.
Agree. $50 is totally reasonable for a custom domain and free email sending. You'd pay that in 2-3 months using hosted Ghost, Mailchimp, ConvertKit, Wordpress, etc.
I think it is probably just another revenue grab. Most people who care enough are willing to pay $50 (I have a free newsletter about product management and willingly paid the $50).
The alternative is a self-hosted or SaaS subscription to something like Ghost or Mailchimp. $50 seems like a better deal to me.
I'm curious how long this prompting UI into language models like GPT-3 will continue. It's so fiddly and imprecise and unpredictable. It's better than nothing, of course, but there's a lot of art in it.
This is a great list of things product managers should do. Especially around managing time and how to do that effectively.
One of the things that makes this less overwhelming is flipping it on its head and thinking about what a product manager shouldn't do. Warren Buffett talks about this idea of "The Institutional Imperative" and what happens when you aren't aware of it and allow the defaults to run your work. It's a great complement to this article, I am sending out a post on Wednesday applying his idea to product management. productsolving.substack.com
I decided to push this one out a week and am publishing a piece on what we can learn about priming problems from GPT-3. Hope you like that one as well.
> I’ve already learned most of the curriculum from engaging with so much of his free content.
This is how I feel about a lot of these online course offerings as well. You aren't paying for the content, they make that available for free. You are paying for the accountability. If you are a high-agency person, you will figure out how to use the free stuff to accomplish the same thing.
This is true. The only way you actually learn something here is by taking ideas as a starting point to identify where they are prevalent in your own life.
Which is fair. These can be good jumping off points. It would be wonderful if Perell credited (for example) the book The Goal for his reference to the Theory of Constraints, etc.
Yeah -- I think him and those like him (Tiago Forte, etc) would argue that they have "remixed" the idea enough to call it their own... which is highly debatable IMO.
I never even thought about this being a problem until I watched the video. It's amazing the types of things we have to build algorithms to handle that our brain does naturally.
Although brains cannot do it "out of the box". Most kids take years of practice to achieve decent dexterity in even simple manipulation tasks. And learning a new skill like guitar in adulthood makes it very clear that, however sophisticated your capabilities in other areas, you have no innate ability to perform complex physical tasks well without a long grind of practice.
So yes, brains are incredible in what they can eventually achieve, and the fact that the calculation involved becomes hidden from conscious awareness can make it seem "effortless", but when you consider the sum of time and effort spent practicing physical tasks over a typical human lifespan, it's really anything but.
