@thegostev

productivity

Efficient Work Practices

There's no point in work being stressful, unpleasant, or emotional. If it is, it needs a fix. The goal of work is to flow seamlessly. You understand precisely what to do. Tasks are written for yourself with as much clarity and usefulness as possible at the moment of

anthropology

Player behavior patterns by country

Predicting how your opponents behave gives you a significant advantage because you can adapt your decisions to increase your chances of winning.

LLM

How are you using the substance?

You are buying inference tokens from a provider (like Anthropic) in different flavors (models) much like choosing types of gasoline. Naturally, some providers and some flavors are better than others. The question is: how are you using this substance? * Would you pour it out down to the very last drop?

Made in Poland - 6 CEOs, founders behind OpenAI, Snowflake, ICEYE

A research into top leaders born and educated in Poland with focus on tech and Forbes 500 enterprises. It's all about Polish influence in tech and global leadership.

anthropology

What is work, truly?

When I first encountered these Greek distinctions as a young manager (around 2008), they transformed how I approached my managerial practice. Instead of asking only what people could produce, I began asking what work would allow them to excel according to their nature.

actionable

Writing with AI without losing your soul

Roughly three months ago, a friend of mine looked at my AI-generated article draft and asked a question that changed everything: "It's fine, but where are you in this?" That's when I realized - it's the AI efficiency trap – you save time but sacrifice the very thing readers want: my perspective.

analytical

LLM reality check

Last week I had beers in Warsaw with a few guys my age, all in tech. One of them told a story I keep thinking about. His CEO had just sat through a meeting where the tech team explained why their big LLM project wasn't working. The guy

anthropology

Everyone loves change until they face the plan

Being on board with the vision and being ready to act are different matters. The 11% difference between people saying climate change should be the government's top priority and those supporting a fossil fuel phaseout tells the story.

analytical

The most important interview

I realized something last week: I know more about some YouTubers' childhoods than I do about my own grandmother's life. This bothers me more than it probably should.

communication

The Product Manager’s Guide to Effective Argumentation for Consensus Building

As a product manager, your ability to argue effectively and debate well is crucial. By mastering these strategies and understanding the psychology behind argumentation, you, as a product manager, can build stronger cases, forge consensus, and drive your product in the right direction.

culture

How companies attract people: 2 dramatic stories from trenches

Have you been to extremely skillful and interesting teams or companies and vice versa? I'd share my experience from both worlds so it can be a start of the thinking process if you're interested in the topic.

culture

3 rhythms of product development orgs (evidence-based)

Acknowledging the pace of your organization helps understand where are you in the spectrum and think through, how does it fit you. Observing product development organizations for 15 years gave me a good perspective on how they operate in terms of pace.

organizational behavior

Normality as the Holy Grail

Were you ever surprised by a mere normality. How comes it became something special?

infrastructure

A few thoughts on infrastructure after catching my phone from a spring

A tiny infrastructure investment secures long-term success as a pocket in $30 shorts takes care of $1000 phone that lives there.

user experience

The context in UX: brilliant functionality to call out stock price predictors

Providing a context is a powerful way to deliver additional value or even build up a differentiation as in this example by Seeking Alpha. It's important to understand what job your user would like to get done with the functionality you provide.

Scalable Relational Experience (RX) Design

We're paying attention to User Experience (UX) and Customer Experience (CX), but we can do more and build constructive relationships with our users. Relational Experience (RX) helps to form loyal behavior and increase the user's role in the product.

actionable

Product Dig #5: Dealing with a visionary client by making a dream happen

A guide for delivering smoothly against highest expectations.

entrepreneurship

Product dig #4: Proven hypothesis are dime a dozen and they're all around

Find out what is known, before testing hypothesis on your own.

entrepreneurship

Product Dig #3: Frictionless Experimentation

When assumptions are defined and hypothesis based on these assumptions listed it’s time to get down to experimenting. Now for how long should we experimenting?

process

Product Dig #2: Agile Or Not Agile That Is The Question

Agile is not the universal solution. Though it’s so popular that sometimes a team can go Agile just for the sake of being actual, trading efficiency for political safety or just to do it as a top company does.

feedback

Product Dig #1: The Feedback Trap

We all heard that any product seed planted in the fertile soil of initial investments should be rained early with maximum possible amount of feedback from potential customers. What might can go wrong with feedback?

user experience

Actionable UX Advice with Hamed Yahyaei

During the Q&A session we've discussed UX from different perspectives. The knowledge accumulated would be beneficial for all who'd like to be up to date with real-world UX trends in 2019.

entrepreneurship

Стартапы в 13 предложениях

Одно из утверждений, которыми я описываю стратапы, проистекает из приницпа, усвоенного мной от Пола Бакхайта (Paul Buchheit): лучше сделать немногих людей абсолютно счастливыми, чем множество людей, счастливыми наполовину.

entrepreneurship

Как потерять время и деньги

Я понимал, что превратиться из богатого в бедного так же просто, как подняться из бедности и разбогатеть. И хотя последние несколько лет я провел за изучением путей из бедности к достатку, я ничего не знал о том, какими путями можно скатиться с вершин богатства в нищету. Для того, чтобы избегать ...

entrepreneurship

Подлецы проигрывают

Недавно меня поразила одна мысль: насколько мало среди успешных людей, которых я знаю, подлецов. Существуют исключения, но их крайне мало.