{"id":2185,"date":"2015-09-24T22:30:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T06:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2015-09-24T22:30:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T06:30:05","slug":"links-9-24-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/24\/links-9-24-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Links: 9-24-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/waitbutwhy.com\/2015\/08\/how-and-why-spacex-will-colonize-mars.html\">How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars &#8211; Wait But Why<\/a><br \/>      Have only read the first page so far (while in the midst of reading &quot;A Man On The Moon&quot;) but if you&#8217;re even a little bit interested in what&#8217;s happening in space, you have to read this, awesome stuff.<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/mars\">mars<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/space\">space<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/exploration\">exploration<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/adventure\">adventure<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/waitbutwhy.com\/2014\/05\/fermi-paradox.html\">The Fermi Paradox &#8211; Wait But Why<\/a><br \/>      Mind blown.<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/life\">life<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/space\">space<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/signalvnoise.com\/posts\/3124-give-it-five-minutes\">Give it five minutes &ndash; Signal v. Noise<\/a><br \/>      Quote: &quot;His response changed my life. It was a simple thing. He said &ldquo;Man, give it five minutes.&rdquo; I asked him what he meant by that? He said, it&rsquo;s fine to disagree, it&rsquo;s fine to push back, it&rsquo;s great to have strong opinions and beliefs, but give my ideas some time to set in before you&rsquo;re sure you want to argue against them. &ldquo;Five minutes&rdquo; represented &ldquo;think&rdquo;, not react. He was totally right. I came into the discussion looking to prove something, not learn something.&quot; via @cdixon<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/ideas\">ideas<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/patience\">patience<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/listening\">listening<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/thinking\">thinking<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/psychology\">psychology<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/waitbutwhy.com\/2015\/03\/procrastination-matrix.html\">The Procrastination Matrix &#8211; Wait But Why<\/a><br \/>      Quote: &quot;And the thing the monkey&nbsp;really&nbsp;likes about Q4 isn&rsquo;t anything about Q4 in particular&mdash;it&rsquo;s that&nbsp;Quadrant 4 isn&rsquo;t Quadrant 1 or 2. The monkey, whose core drive is to do&nbsp;whatever&rsquo;s&nbsp;easiest, can&rsquo;t stand the&nbsp;&ldquo;important&rdquo; quadrants, because&nbsp;the important quadrants are where the pressure&rsquo;s on&mdash;it&rsquo;s where there&rsquo;s something to prove, where your actions have consequences, where the stakes are high, and where you&rsquo;re shooting for the stars,&nbsp;which means you might fail to reach them.&nbsp;No fucking thanks, says the monkey. Writing 300 blog posts while I was supposed to be dreaming up brilliant business growth strategies wasn&rsquo;t &ldquo;easy&rdquo; in the sense that I didn&rsquo;t have to&nbsp;work hard to write them&mdash;it was easy in that there was nothing at stake.&nbsp;Stakes are really what&rsquo;s hard for a human.&quot;<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/priorities\">priorities<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/goals\">goals<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/urgent\">urgent<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/important\">important<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/eisenhower-matrix\">eisenhower-matrix<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/productivity\">productivity<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/manytricks.com\/moom\/\">Moom &middot; Many Tricks<\/a><br \/>      May need to try this out instead of Stay. <br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/mac\">mac<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/osx\">osx<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/tools\">tools<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/evergreen-business-weekly\/how-to-master-the-discipline-of-product-management-not-the-job-of-product-manager-28d2c493d445\">How to Master The Discipline of Product Management (Not the job of Product Manager) &mdash; Evergreen Business Fortnightly &mdash; Medium<\/a><br \/>      Epic list of links \/ resources for product managers, signed up for their newsletter too, which feels similar to Farnam Street (signed up a couple weeks ago and have thoroughly enjoyed) and The Sunday Long Read.  <br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/product-product-product\">product-product-product<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/productmanagement\">productmanagement<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/priorities\">priorities<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/decision-making\">decision-making<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hbswk.hbs.edu\/item\/6496.html\">Clay Christensen&rsquo;s Milkshake Marketing &#8211; HBS Working Knowledge &#8211; Harvard Business School<\/a><br \/>      I first read about this in his book &quot;How Will You Measure Your Life?&quot;.  Quote: &quot;&#8230; the jobs-to-be-done point of view causes you to crawl into the skin of your customer and go with her as she goes about her day, always asking the question as she does something: Why did she do it that way?&quot;  Funny thing is that I don&#8217;t see a note saying that thinking about milkshakes this way actually increased sales, but the &quot;what job are you using this for?&quot; way of thinking is helpful.<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/product-design\">product-design<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/productmanagement\">productmanagement<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sheriff.dynu.com\/views\/home\">$heriff &#8211; Detecting Price Discrimination<\/a><br \/>      I use Amazon Prime *a bunch*, probably need to use something like this once in awhile to make sure I&#8217;m not getting price jacked because I spend so much money with them.<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/amazon\">amazon<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/pricing\">pricing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/browser\">browser<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/business\">business<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/a16z.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/good-product-manager.pdf\">Good Product Manager\/Bad Product Manager<\/a><br \/>      Short of list &quot;do \/ don&#8217;t&quot;, couple be a good conversation topic.<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/product\">product<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/productmanagement\">productmanagement<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/management\">management<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.intercom.io\/rarely-say-yes-to-feature-requests\/\">Rarely say yes to feature requests &#8211; Inside Intercom<\/a><br \/>      Great list of questions for product managers to ask about proposed \/ suggested features for a product. Reproduced here for the time in 5 years when the blog permalink changes: 1) Does it fit your vision? 2) Will it still matter in 5 years? 3) Will everyone benefit from it? 4) Will it improve, complement or innovate on the existing workflow? 5) Does it grow the business? 6) Will it generate new meaningful engagement? 7) If it succeeds, can we support and afford it? 8) Can we design it so that reward is greater than effort? 9) Can we do it well? 10) can we scope it well? <br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/product-product-product\">product-product-product<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/productmanagement\">productmanagement<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars &#8211; Wait But Why Have only read the first page so far (while in the midst of reading &quot;A Man On The Moon&quot;) but if you&#8217;re even a little bit interested in what&#8217;s happening in space, you have to read this, awesome stuff. (categories: mars space exploration adventure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/24\/links-9-24-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links: 9-24-2015<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}