In the early 2010s, Sean Ellis and the growth hacking movement helped popularize the structure of the North Star. title:: What is the North Star Metric? A team using the North Star Framework identifies a single, meaningful metric and a handful of contributing Inputs. Product teams work to influence those Inputs, which in turn drive the metric. The North Star is a leading indicator of sustainable growth and acts as a connective tissue between the product and the broader business....

By definition, objectives are significant, concrete, action oriented, and (ideally) inspirational. When properly designed and deployed, they’re a vaccine against fuzzy thinking—and fuzzy execution. via Measure what Matters

Highlights first synced by [[Readwise]] [[Dec 12th, 2022]] Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way. (Location 154) Obliquity describes the process of achieving complex objectives indirectly....

Short for Objectives and Key Results. It is a collaborative goal-setting protocol for companies, teams, and individuals. By definition, objectives are significant, concrete, action oriented, and (ideally) inspirational. When properly designed and deployed, they’re a vaccine against fuzzy thinking—and fuzzy execution. KEY RESULTS benchmark and monitor HOW we get to the objective. Effective KRs are specific and time-bound, aggressive yet realistic. Most of all, they are measurable and verifiable....

I just pivoted. In start-up lingo, it means that you change your business model to match the resources you have. Pivoting politely says you have failed and run out of ideas, money or men. The consequences of not quitting or pivoting Last time I got involved with a hyperlocal project lasting over a decade. I refused to give up! I steadfastly held on to my belief system that society starts outside your doorstep, and that is your neighbourhood....

Often I have so many ideas in my head that I have to write them down for fear that they may get lost in the whirlwind brewing inside my head. I get tempted to convert some of these ideas into projects. If these ideas are marketable, I give them a swing. I then go about and set up these projects. I outline the strategy and plan for the same. I lose steam or motivation midway....

Does it happen that you get an epiphany and want to share it with the world? Do you save the idea as a to-do in your task manager? The next day or on the scheduled day and time, you get to writing it, but you feel uninspired and stuck. But since you have already committed to the topic and have invested in the idea. You force yourself, chug along with the topic, and feel the pain of not being in the flow; you feel stuck!...

Recently I came across a tweet from Martine Guernsey that she will apply the Time Sector Method for Task management developed by Carl Pullien. I was immediately drawn to the idea, and finally, I felt someone had articulated what I had been unable to - that context-based task managers were not working for me and perhaps a lot of other people. Context-based GTD apps may be outdated today. I have been using Things 3 as my primary application for Task Management for the last three years, but every day I opened it, I hated the Today view....

So website building is no longer the complex process it used to be. Unless you want to spend 46K USD building it. Most mortals don’t have this kind of budget. So here is where no code and AI to Build websites - Bookmark comes in. Now you can just drag and drop elements and build a website. In such cases a basic knowledge of design and layers is required. But that too can be avoided by having AI build your site, or just convert your notion page in to a website....

Sometimes nothing happens for decades and then decades happen within weeks. I woke up one fine day and decided to see if what I am doing is ever going to work out. Some Background I am deeply interested in Systems. MacroSystem like ““Political Systems or Economic systems or micro-systems like a “small business or even a family.” Cynefin Framework to understand systems This quest of mine led me to a book on the Cynefin Framework developed by Dave Snowden....