Itamar Gilad: Why Impact/Effort Prioritization Doesn’t Work. Effort can be stated in man/weeks or simply has high/medium/low. Impact can be graded on a scale, for example 1–5, 5 being the highest, or again as high/medium/low. Once you have the numbers in place, it’s a matter of picking the features that give you the best bang for the buck (more)

Itamar GIlad: Why Is Product So Hard? Building great products — ones that deliver high value to the customers and to the company — is extremely hard. This is evident from discussions I hold with product people, who regularly report not being able to create impact. (more)

Lynn Parramore: Private Equity is Out of Control and Looting America. This Prosecutor Says We Can Fix It.Price hikes, deteriorating conditions, and poor service — along with a certain slickness of marketing — could be signs that ownership of a business you count on has transferred to one or more firms in a rapidly-expanding Wall Street industry. (more)

Lenny Rachitsky interviews Guillermo Rauch (founder & CEO of Vercel, creators of v0 and Next.js): Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create a hundred million builders. (more)

Colin Matthews: A guide to AI prototyping for product managers (vibe prototyping). tools like Cursor, Replit Agent, v0, Bolt, and other new cutting-edge AI tools that allow you to build working apps in minutes (more)

Ben Hunt: It's the Smart Move. No one starts off intending to run a Ponzi scheme like Madoff or SBF. No one starts off intending to falsify test results like Elizabeth Holmes. No one starts off intending to double-pledge collateral like Tricolor... dozens of senior and subordinated lenders, none of whom were aware of the full extent of the lending web, like First Brands. (more)

Itamar Gilad: Embracing Uncertainty: A Modern Take On Strategy, Goals, and Roadmaps. We all strive for certainty � if we do X, Y will happen. Certainty is comforting; it allows us to operate without fear, doubt, or having to think too much. Many of the processes your company employs, especially strategy, roadmap, and project planning, are meant to create certainty (more)

The Appeal: Locked In, Priced Out: How Prison Commissary Price-Gouging Preys on the Incarcerated. Today, The Appeal published Locked In, Priced Out, a project that includes a first-of-its-kind database of prison commissary lists from 46 states. This project also examines the availability, prices, and markups of products across several categories, including food, hygiene, and religious items. (more)

Itamar Gilad: The Three True-North Metrics that Your Product and Business Need. In practice companies struggle with settling for just one top KPI, and with good reason. The terms are not very clear either — North Star Metric, One Metric, top business KPI — are these all the same? Are they different? (more)

Itamar Gilad: The Total Impact Matrix - Beyond Blind Bets. Impact is a central concept in product development, but it’s often unerdused or misused. In this article I want to suggest a thinking tool, The Total Impact Matrix, to help you use it better. (more)

Brendan Ballou Opinion: Private Equity Is Gutting America — and Getting Away With It. Companies bought by private equity firms are far more likely to go bankrupt than companies that aren’t. Over the last decade, private equity firms were responsible for nearly 600,000 job losses in the retail sector alone. In nursing homes, where the firms have been particularly active, private equity ownership is responsible for an estimated — and astounding — 20,000 premature deaths over a 12-year period. Why do private equity firms succeed when the companies they buy so often fail? In part, it’s because firms are generally insulated from the consequences of their actions (more)

Process of analyzing a security (aka a company's stock) to determine whether it's price reflects its worth. (more)

a big retail company - hardware, home improvement

credit card company/network

health insurance company

Steve Denning: How The 30 Famous Firms In The Dow Do—Or Don’t—Create Value Customer Obsession Usually Trumps Profit Chasing: Prioritizing real value for buyers crushes short-term greed every time. Autonomous Networks Generally Crush Hierarchies: Flat, flexible teams outmaneuver rigid command chains. Adaptive Mindsets (agile mindset) Mostly Demolish Rigid Routines: Fluid thinking adapts to chaos; mechanical processes shatter. (more)

inventor of the LBO

Steve Denning: Why Are Millions Of Managers Becoming Obsolete? Here Are 21 Reasons. In response to several articles here and here suggesting that millions of managers are becoming obsolete, I have been asked to clarify. (more)

truck maker

maker of thermostats and other electronic/digital components