Raguram

Discipline is just consistently separating how you feel from what you do.

@tankots @WisprFlow "Wispr Flow" @tankots this is exciting! Impressive product. Looking forward to trying this soon.

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@shreyas's "Improving Your Product Sense" course is the best investment of my life. - masterclass on Clear Thinking - What is Product Sense and mindset required for it - "Greater respect for your intelligence is when someone teaches you what not to do!" (Shreyas excels here)

Seth Godin: Sell stories, not products.

Universal truth of problem solving: The definition-solving process is circular not linear. You can't fully define a problem without starting to solve the problem. Nor can you predict when the problem is fully defined (or solved for that matter). Clarity will eventually emerge.

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Optimism on goals and pessimism on operations is indeed a very powerful mental model for execution. Thanks for articulating this so well @shreyas

Wonderful excerpts from Dr. Abdul Kalam's autobiography Wings of Fire. I particularly liked the part where he describes his meeting with Swami Shivanandaji which gave him the much needed peace and clarity about next steps in his life! Thanks for sharing @labstamil

@volodarik I follow a similar process too and you can see the faces of the interview candidates instantly light up when we start with an introduction about us, the company vision and what this position is about. Thanks for sharing this with us @volodarik

I still interview candidates for every position. When you interview a great candidate, they are also interviewing you. Here are a few notes on what helps me to win them over almost every time: ---------- 1/ Prepare I research everything about the candidate before the meeting. I look at their social media, articles, interviews, projects, things they've learned and make talking points. You show that I respect them and stand out from the rest of their interviews. 2/ Transparency The first 15 minutes of the interview are for their questions. “I’m an open book and ready to share anything with you.” I mean it and never neglect the weirdest questions. Now they trust you and are open to hearing what you have to say. 3/ Pitch Instead of "tell me about yourself." I pitch... I pitch our company, vision, product, and team like they are the most influential investor in SF. After the pitch, they are warmed up and take the interview even more seriously. 4/ Appeal I tell them about our biggest challenges and how they can impact the company's future. People hate boring jobs. They want to make a difference. Now they are excited and can't wait to work with us. 5/ Fatality In the end, I ask: "On a scale from 1 to 10, how much do you want to work with us?" If 9 or lower, I ask: "What can I share or do to make it a 10?" They'll share their doubts which they wouldn't share otherwise. You can address objections and win them over. 6/ Give feedback and move quickly Follow up with your feedback right after the interview and let them know the deadlines for the rest of the steps. Don’t make them wait and assume things you don’t mean.

India's successful lunar mission (landing its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the moon) is another one of many straws in the wind showing its ascendence. As previously shown in my health index for countries, which is used to derive my projections for countries' next 10-year growth rates, India scores on top with a projected growth rate over the next 10 years of about 7%. It has the right mix of ingredients that shows that it has great potential and the right leadership to catalyze it. It reminds me a lot of China in 1984 (when I first went) around the time Deng Xiaoping made his reform and opening up policies that catalyzed China. Congratulations India!

@isiva Couldn't agree more! Thanks for sharing.

Yes, the last 1% and that makes all the difference! jaredramsey.com/blog/20230808.…

@aakashgupta Great question bank! Thanks for sharing Aakash.

*Bookmark this post to always have questions to ask your customers* Understanding our customers is one of the most important things we can do as product builders. But surprisingly, a lot of builders I speak to don't know where to start. The answer is simple: we just need to get in the habit of talking to our customers. And one of the best ways to do that is by talking to them and asking questions. So I hope this list is helpful for you all, providing you with an endless supply of questions to ask. HERE'S THE LIST: 1. What are some alternatives to our product you've used or considered? 2. What's a problem that our product has helped you solve recently? 3. What is the job that our product does for you? 4. What's a feature that keeps you using our product? 5. What's something you want to achieve with our product in the future? 6. If you could change one thing about our product, what would it be? 7. What's a feature in our product you're really good at utilizing? 8. What's a feature in our product you wish you were better at utilizing? 9. What's your favorite update we've rolled out for our product? 10. How has our product changed the way you work? 11. What's a memorable moment when you felt our product really provided value for you? 12. How does our product fit into your daily workflow? 13. How has our product improved your efficiency or productivity? 14. What additional functionality would you like our product to have? 15. How would you feel if you could no longer use our product? 16. What tasks are you currently using our product for? 17. What tasks would you like our product to assist with? 18. What's a software-related task you enjoy doing with our product? 19. What's an unexpected way you've used our product? 20. How do you currently solve the problems our product aims to address without using it? 21. If you could implement our product anywhere in your workflow, where would it be? 22. What's something you don't like about using our product? 23. What's a goal you're looking forward to achieving with our product? 24. If you could ask us to develop any feature, what would it be? 25. What's a concern you have about our product? 26. What's your favorite part of the product interface? 27. What's something you'd like to change about the product interface? 28. Are there any features that you don’t use in our product? If so, why? 29. What's your favorite integration with our product? 30. How do you want to improve your skills with our product? 31. What's a feature you haven't tried, but want to? 32. What's a time our product helped you with a major task? 33. What's something our product did that you didn't expect? 34. What's a feature you don't think is utilized enough? 35. What's a feature you wish our product had? 36. What's a time our product didn't meet your expectations? How can we fix it? 37. What's a tool within our product you admire? 38. What's a feature you wish our product implemented differently? 39. If you could change one thing about how our product operates, what would it be? 40. What's a feature you're proud of mastering in our product this year? 41. What's something you've learned from using our product? 42. What's a tech topic related to our product you wish you knew more about? 43. What's your favorite aspect of our product's architecture? 44. What's something you would change about our product's architecture? 45. What's your favorite way to troubleshoot issues with our product? 46. What's a feature that would make our product even better? 47. What's something you wish we knew about your product usage? 48. What's a feature that makes you feel comfortable using our product? 49. What's a feature that makes you feel overwhelmed or challenged? 50. How do you usually go about solving this problem without our product? 51. Can you walk me through the process of how you use our product? 52. Can you describe a time when our product saved you significant time or resources? 53. How does our product fit into your bigger picture? 54. What would your ideal solution look like for the problems you're facing? 55. What were your initial impressions when you started using our product? 56. Are there any features you expected our product to have that it didn't? 57. Have you recommended our product to others? If so, why? If not, why not? 58. How would you explain our product to a friend? 59. What made you try our product in the first place? 60. How has our product surprised you? 61. How would you feel if you couldn't use our product anymore? 62. Can you tell me about the last time our product didn't meet your expectations? 63. How often do you use our product compared to alternatives? 64. How do you measure success with our product? 65. What's the hardest part about using our product? 66. If you could wave a magic wand and change anything about our product, what would it be? 67. What was your biggest challenge before using our product and how has our product addressed that? 68. What is the primary benefit you've received from our product? 69. How much time or money has our product saved you? 70. If you had to give up a feature in our product, what would it be and why? 71. How have your team members responded to our product? 72. How have you seen our product evolve since you started using it? 73. How do you wish our product will evolve in the future? 74. What are the most frequent tasks you use our product for? 75. How have you been handling these tasks without our product? 76. Can you share some feedback you've heard about our product from other users? 77. What are some related products or services you love? Why? 78. What do you wish our product did that it currently does not? 79. If you were in charge of our product, what would you do differently? 80. How does our product compare with similar ones you've used? 81. What are some features of our product that you never use? 82. Can you tell me about a time when you found our product particularly useful? 83. How has using our product affected your workflow or routine? 84. What other tools or products does our product replace or reduce the need for? 85. What do you perceive as the biggest strengths and weaknesses of our product? 86. Have you contacted our customer support? If so, can you share your experience? 87. What are some features or services that you wish our product offered? 88. Can you tell me about a time when you wanted to use our product but couldn't? 89. What's the biggest change our product has brought in your life? 90. If there's one thing you'd want other users to know about our product, what would it be? 91. Is there a learning curve to using our product? If so, how steep? 92. How do you see our product helping you in the future? 93. Is there any feature you would like us to explain more about? 94. How likely are you to purchase our product again or renew your subscription? 95. If you had to rate our product out of 10, what score would you give? 96. Can you share any interesting stories or experiences you've had with our product? 97. What kind of person do you think would benefit the most from our product? 98. Have you found any unexpected benefits from using our product? 99. What's the main reason you would recommend our product to someone else? 100. Can you share a moment when you felt delighted using our product? 101. Is there anything else you would like us to know about your experience with our product? If you made it this far, like and share so more people see the list, and thank you as always for reading!

@nurijanian Very well articulated! Thanks for sharing

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Why the PM career ladder is broken (another banger from Nate) * Each step has an invisible ceiling * The higher you climb the more your work has to ladder up to commercial outcomes

@blakeaburge Thanks for sharing Blake. Keep them coming! Never know Google sheets had so many useful features.

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@svembu @svembu You have inspired an entire generation with your simplicity, desire to serve the community and love for Bharat. Justice will prevail and we will pray that you get united with your son soon and lead a peaceful life together.

1/ With vicious personal attacks and slander on my character, it is time for me to respond. This is a deeply painful personal thread. My personal life, in contrast to my business life, has been a long tragedy. Autism destroyed our lives and left me suicidally depressed.

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