Best of 2022
In case you missed an article or twenty, here are the most-read ones of 2022.
A Final Note from UrbanLeap — The most popular, and personal, article of 2022.
Every Startup is a Little Bit Broken — “Every startup in existence is broken in multiple ways. Anyone who tells you otherwise about their startup is either delusional, lying, or both.”
A New Way to Think About Product-Market Fit — The most popular article from 2021 is still giving a fight.
When Customers Don’t Get It — The shortest summary you will find of the wonderful positioning book Obviously Awesome by April Dunford.
Resisting The Shiny Object Syndrome — The symptoms, the disease, and the cure.
Designing Ultra Fast Engineering Teams — A startup can either fail or ship ultra fast. Here’s how to do the latter.
The Change That Changed Everything — How a single change supercharged product adoption among our government customers.
Unleash Your Gratitude — My wife always tells me “if you think something nice about someone, just say it.”
Why The Best Product Managers Delay Their Intuition — A holiday gift from Daniel Kahneman to all decision-makers out there.
Hire for Hunger — What is hunger, why you can’t settle for it, and how to hire for it systematically?
Master Pianists and 10x Engineers — Most engineers don’t like to hear this.
Source of Truth — A few books that changed me.
Missing the Forest for the Code — The transformation of good engineers into code monkeys.
Raise Your Head Before You’re Dead — A leader’s job is to stop being busy, listen more, and avoid the cliff ahead.
The Bizarre World of Startup Ideas — Stuff that most people get mostly wrong about startup ideas, brought to you in a bizarre Q&A format.
Work-Life Imbalance — “Work-life balance is incompatible with startups. But you don’t need it to be happy.”
Better by Default — Good defaults are a good way to do the right thing most of the time. These are my favorite ones.
Feel-Good Traps — A feel-good trap is a meaningless and even harmful statement disguised as a positive one.
Endure or Quit? That is the Question — The most decisive entrepreneurial question, and the answer…
Extreme Bootstrap and Extreme VC — Why most startups are extremely problematic.
Debugging Product-Market Fit — Can’t find PMF? Identify why and get unstuck.
Shaping Past Memories — A little trick to improve the memory of your entire life.
Never Lose Momentum — If you optimize for one thing, let it be momentum.
Killer Startup Instincts — The one article I would send to my past self.
Thank you for reading and see you in 2023!