Jeremey DuVall — Giving everyone access to "healthy"

In Ami Vora’s recent interview on Lenny’s podcast, she put words to an idea that’s been bouncing around in my head. Namely, the ol’ “execution eats strategy for breakfast,” but there’s more to it than that:
if you have great strategy, perfect strategy but poor execution, you don’t win because your strategy never makes it to the market. And what’s even worse is that you have learned nothing…Whereas when you have a pretty good strategy, a good enough strategy...

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about backlogs. They’re equal parts a treasure trove of ideas and the dark corner where ideas are left and often forgotten about.
Everyone has a backlog. Within a single company, each function even has their own list of ideas. Support has a catalogue of customer issues. Marketing has a list of tweaks, messaging updates, and optimizations. Product and Eng obviously have a list of...

I recently tried out HEY, the email and calendar combo from the team over at 37Signals (e.g. Basecamp). I won’t be continuing with the trial because it’s missing several features I need—namely, email specific signatures and write capabilities to Google...

While reading Casey Winters’ post about finding product/market fit, I came across this new-to-me quote from Jeff Bezos pulled from an Amazon shareholder letter (emphasis mine):
One thing I love about customers is that they are divinely discontent. Their expectations are never static – they go up. It’s human nature. We didn’t ascend from our hunter-gatherer days by being satisfied. People have a voracious appetite for a better...