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Naval: -Outsource anything that’s less than your aspirational hourly rate (labor leverage). -Invest behind your decisions to multiply the force you’re exerting (capital leverage). -Code, write, or make something with zero marginal cost of replication (product leverage).

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@jmikolay on Twitter

you shouldn’t act surprised when people say they don’t know something. This applies to both technical things (“What?! I can’t believe you don’t know what the stack is!“) and non-technical things (“You don’t know who RMS is?!”). Feigning surprise has absolutely no social or educational benefit: When people feign surprise, it’s usually to make them feel better about themselves and others feel worse.

No feigning surprise

Julia Evans

The types of inputs for product decisions and the need for finding a balance based on context: Key inputs for product decisions: 1. Data 2. Customer feedback 3. Technical effort 4. Strategy 5. Industry landscape 6. Instinct Rely heavily on 1-3? Can move fast, but often too incremental. Rely heavily on 4-6? Can make big impact, but often fail prematurely. Hence, balance.

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@shreyas on Twitter

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