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What essay or article have you read that has had a significant impact on how you think about business, markets, entrepreneurship and/or technology?

2/ Thanks for all the generous ideas on essays/articles. Here are the ones I'd personally put into the hall of fame

This one by @spolsky on cannibalizing your complement https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

Strategy Letter V

When I was in college I took two intro economics courses: macroeconomics and microeconomics. Macro was full of theories like “low unemployment causes inflation” that never quite stood u…

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

3/ This podcast with @bgurley and @patrick_oshag and its discussion of network effects

http://investorfieldguide.com/gurley/

4/ This one on Evolution & Revolution as Organizations Grow shared by a @CBinsights newsletter subscriber is great in framing the challenges of scaling https://hbr.org/1998/05/evolution-and-revolution-as-organizations-grow

Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow

Management practices that work well in one phase may bring on a crisis in another.

https://hbr.org/1998/05/evolution-and-revolution-as-organizations-grow

5/ summarized the Evolution v Revolution article here

https://twitter.com/asanwal/status/1137361726167486471

I do recommend reading the whole thing, however

https://twitter.com/asanwal/status/1137361726167486471

6/ Status-as-a-Service by @eugenewei is

What makes it special is that it's long AF and detailed & still immensely readable

He's a special writer for the clarity he brings to topics while talking like a human the whole time https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service

Status as a Service (StaaS) — Remains of the Day

Editor's Note 1 : I have no editor. Editor’s Note 2 : I would like to assure new subscribers to this blog that most my posts are not as long as this one. Or as long as my previous one . My long break...

https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service

7/ @pmarca with a great reminder abt markets

Reminded of this Warren Buffett maxim

"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."

https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4.html

8/ "Management is (Still) Not Leadership"

very helpful for me as I def conflated the two prior

helped provide some clarity on where to seek help as we scale @CBinsights

https://hbr.org/2013/01/management-is-still-not-leadership.html

thx @nickseguin for flagging this one

Management Is (Still) Not Leadership

After years of debate, people still confuse these ideas – at their peril.

https://hbr.org/2013/01/management-is-still-not-leadership.html

9/ Great talk by Peter Kaufman on the Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking

Discusses Einstein’s 5 ascending levels of cognitive prowess

5: smart
4: intelligent
3: brilliant
2: genius
1: simple

Simple transcends genius

http://latticeworkinvesting.com/category/peter-kaufman/

10/ Five ways to build a $100M biz by @chrija featuring his

,

framework was very clarifying in @CBinsights early days (esp in figuring out which markets not to attack)

Also, killer dataviz as you’ll see attached :)

http://christophjanz.blogspot.com/2014/10/five-ways-to-build-100-million-business.html?m=1

10/ Five ways to build a $100M biz by @chrija featuring his , , framework was very clarifying in @CBinsights early days (esp in figuring out which markets not to attack)Also, killer dataviz as you’ll see attached :) http://christophjanz.blogspot.com/2014/10/five-ways-to-build-100-million-business.html?m=1

11/ Going to use this to record concepts I've liked from various sources (to remind myself)

My favorite concept from @AnnieDuke's Thinking in Bets was that of "resulting" - our tendency to equate the quality of a decision with the quality of its outcome

Def been guilty of this

12/ "The 4 Myths of Bundling" by @shishirmehrotra

Very detailed, thoughtful analysis which challenged some preconceptions I had and also taught me a lot about the concept of bundling https://coda.io/@shishir/four-myths-of-bundling

Four Myths of Bundling

https://coda.io/@shishir/four-myths-of-bundling

13/ "The 3 Sides of Risk" by @morganhousel

1. The odds you will get hit
2. The avg consequences of getting hit
3. The tail-end consequences of getting hit

It’s the third that’s hardest to learn, and can often only be learned through experience https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/the-three-sides-of-risk/

The Three Sides of Risk

I grew up ski racing in Lake Tahoe. I was on the Squaw Valley Ski Team, and it was the center of my life for over a decade. At a conference a few months ago I was asked what skiing taught me about...

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/the-three-sides-of-risk/

14/ “Fake activity is great for making yourself feel better, but lousy for actual results“

Loved the examples in this. So easy to confuse activity with progress. https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2020/05/04/do-the-real-thing/

Do the Real Thing | Scott H Young

Success in most things boils down to a simple, but easily ignored distinction: do the real thing and stop doing fake alternatives instead.

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2020/05/04/do-the-real-thing/

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