Welcome to my [Digital Garden](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history/). I try to write some insights here in my early mornings (whenever I wake up before the kids), mostly around startups, product management, organizational behavior, leadership, productivity, and AI. The notes are densely linked with each other and are best browsed according to interest, but here's a couple that are interesting. ### Startups and Product Management * [[House Cats vs Street Cats - What I had to unlearn to become a Founder]] * [[ZIRP Management is what preceded Founder Mode]] * [[Outcomes vs outputs - Get the right scoreboard for your team]] * [[Spend more time at the surface]] ### Leadership & Organizations * [[Act with conviction to get the USB plug right on the first try]] * [[Accountability is the price of autonomy]] * [[Begin from the end]] * [[Every organism wants to grow]] ### Productivity * [[Choose positive payoff curves]] * [[The main thing is to make the main thing the main thing]] * [[Yak shaving]] ### Communication * [[Transmissibility is the k-factor of ideas]] * [[Allow for noise margin in communication]] * [[Do the work to hold an opinion]] * [[Stick to your best arguments]] ### Decision Making & Behavioral Psychology * [[Seek mental hypertrophy]] * [[Absence of evidence doesn't mean evidence of absence]] * [[Darwin's Golden Rule]] * [[Zero-based thinking]] * [[IKEA Effect]] ### Book Summaries [[Book Summaries/@List|All the book summaries]] * [[The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich]] * [[Creative Selection, Ken Kocienda]] * [[Gut Feelings, Greg Gigerenzer]] For the masochists: [[Publishing Log|Full publishing log]]