
The Antithesis Principle
What Smart People Miss and Wise People See
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What Smart People Miss and Wise People See

The fundamental cognitive bias of product builders has 4 embedded beliefs together:

If you're a founder/CEO or a senior leader in a high leverage role, it is smart to identify what you are really selling.

Some observations on career satisfaction for ambitious mid-career folks in tech (from having coached hundreds of talented & ambitious people over the years):

Blunt feedback can be life-changing but intent and judgment determine how useful it will be.

Skip the comfortable abstract stuff and get to the hard specifics

From which you can derive arbitrarily sophisticated approaches for your own communication

I get asked all the time:

Many assume that when someone publicly expresses “vulnerability”, it is a sign of humility.

When two Type-A PMs negotiate, everyone loses.