They say if you give a man a fish, he eats for a day, but if you teach him to fish, he eats for a lifetime. On Mother’s Day, I wanted to reflect on my childhood and what I learned from my parents. guru.school/2020/05/10/busin…

I'm discussing “How to find the next killer product feature?” with All things product innovation. Tomorrow, Feb 9 at 7:30 PM EST on @joinclubhouse. Join me! joinclubhouse.com/event/xlNy…

After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. Happy Gandhi Jayanti!

I have a performance testing joke but I can't seem to stress it enough.

The one area of my life I can be better about is focus. I take up many side projects, and lose track of priority. I’m going to try forming better habits around keeping up with, and prioritizing side projects. #sidehustle #focus

When do you build a custom feature for a customer when operating a SaaS platform business? One-off customizations that may not help anyone except the client may be bad But being paid a lot to do so could be great for business. So what's the best middle ground? See image

In our distracted world, focus can actually be a huge competitive advantage. The best way to improve focus is through training - regular periods of solitude and contemplation through meditation, or a hobby that doesn't involve consuming information.

Kodak was a Goliath in photography. By 1976, 85% of cameras & 90% of film sold in US was Kodak. Kodak engineers invented the world's first DSLR. But their marketing & sales killed the project to avoid cannibalization of the film market Lesson: Reinvent b4 youre forced to.

The best businesses reinvent themselves based on customer expectations. But why do so few do so before the market forces them to? Because reinvention means making bold choices, and business leaders fear impact on bottom line revenue.

Survey evidence of 1,000 one- and two-star reviews of 60 top-ranked hotels from @Tripadvisor found a quarter of them were unfair HBR surveys found that unfair reviews didn't change people’s perception of the firm (43.1%), and over 25% felt more positively toward the product

Customer reviews help understand market perception But consumers may also have unrealistic expectations, resulting in unfair reviews. You can see this all the time on app reviews on the app store. How can u turn unfair reviews to our advantage? By embracing them like @Snowbird

When you hold a glass of water for a minute, it doesn't hurt your arm. But when you hold it for a day, it hurts. Stress is like holding onto a glass of water for a long period of time. it doesn't matter how much it weighs, it'll hurt eventually when you hold onto it.

Many people today pride themselves on multitasking. But is multitasking valuable, or is that a symptom of not being able to focus? Research from University of London & Stanford says our brain's IQ drops 15 pts when multitasking, & reduce ability to filter out irrelevancy

Hypocrisy at its finest 👏 I get that people can change, but it does bring doubt in my mind whether these celebs really mean what they say or they're just capitalizing on a PR moment 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Once @ericschmidt then the CEO of Google, shared a concern: “Every 2 days we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization until 2003" We have a problem of abundance. Too much of everything. In the information age, solitude can be a competitive advantage

Why is this not given to health workers and others who put themselves in harm’s way everyday? Priories 🤨🙄 – at Cambridge, MA

A role model for startups is @Akamai. Their 2019 revenue was $2.8B with EBITDA of $1B, and they're only 20y old. So how did they get here? Through great engineering & lean business principles. Here's my takeaways on their journey scaling their business 👇