Oversimplified: Volume 110
How to love, the power of product thinking, and juicing your game design
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Welcome to another issue of Oversimplified: My humble attempt at sharing the best things I find on the internet each week across growth, data, startups, and life in general. No drawn-out intro this week. Letâs get to it.
âď¸ Notes on How to Love
Conor Dewey | Life | 2021-06-21
I just finished a short book called How to Love and thought I would share my notes on it. Lots of interesting stuff here to make you think about what it means to love in the context of both yourself and others.
đ The Power of Product Thinking
Julie Zhuo | Product | 2021-06-15
I enjoyed this post quite a bit. In particular, check out the framework for developing both observation and inquiry mindsets. I found myself nodding along to the bits about data, reminding me of another great thread from Julie on the topic.
đ Itâs a Beautiful Day to Stay Inside
Robin Rendle | Career | 2021-06-16
Excellent food for thought: âSo I tell myself that I can treat my work with as much care as I treat myself. And that I donât have to sacrifice one for the other. We donât have to fetishize our grief to make great things. We can be kind and open and happy and the work can still be good.â
đ Practical SQL for Data Analysis
Haki Benita | Data Science | 2020-04-26
If you find yourself using SQL often in your daily toolkit, it might be worth skimming through this comprehensive guide that takes you from the basics to descriptive statistics to pivot tables all the way to something like linear regression. Crazy how much you can do with just SQL!
đ Juice it Or Lose it
Martin Jonasson & Petri Purho | Design | 2021-05-24
This talk on the role of âjuiceâ in game design is awesome and has lots of applications beyond just gaming. In this context, juice refers to the output of the playerâs inputs (think of the visual and audio feedback when you hit a chord in Guitar Hero).
đ University of Threads
@yangpten | Career | N/A
This was trending this week on ProductHunt, but in case you missed it and like Twitter threads, hereâs a repo with tons of them on product management: âLearn product management from 250+ curated Twitter threads.â
Food for Thought
I watched Bob Dylan as I was growing up, and I watched him never stand still," Steve would tell me about a year later, in a circuitous attempt to explain why he finally dived back into Apple. "If you look at true artists, if they get really good at something, it occurs to them that they can do this for the rest of their lives, and they can be really successful at it to the outside world, but not really successful to themselves. That's the moment that an artist really decided who he or she is. If they keep on risking failure they're still artists. Dylan and Picasso were always risking failure. â Steve Jobs
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Until next time,
Conor