🎾 How to Harness the Power of Lenny's Newsletter Posts to Level Up Your Career, Forget Goodhart's Law & Learn How to Become a Data Driven Pro, How to Create a Personal Career Framework

+ spicy Rick Rubin meme

This is Sunday 1-1-2-3 with George.

Each week, I try to leave you with something that sticks and helps you progress.

Product Managers would frame this as “variable rewards”.

Today we have:

• The Lennyverse: A Themed Database of Lenny’s Newsletter Posts

• Crafting a Career Framework

• Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think & How to Become Data Driven

• 24 Books to Re-read Every Year as Part of Your “Business Fundamentals Course”

+ a meme for folks who work with PMs

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📚 The Lennyverse: A Themed Database of Lenny’s Newsletter Posts

If you missed this, I put out a FREE Notion database of all the posts from Lenny’s Newsletter (one of the best product & growth newsletters):

George from 🕹prodmgmt.world @nurijanian

Stop scrolling ⏸ Lenny @lennysan writes the best PM newsletter with >100,000 subscribers. His catalogue is so deep by now (100's of posts). Each post a path to solving your specific problem. But you're probably only getting 10% of its value... Introducing The Lennyverse 🔥👇🏽

George from 🕹prodmgmt.world @nurijanian

The Lennyverse is a FREE indexed Notion database of all of Lenny's newsletter posts. 🤯 Discover by Topic (15+ topics so far, and growing). 😍 Filter by Audience. Don't waste time sifting through posts that aren't aimed at you. Get this here 👇🏽 🔗 nurijanian.gumroad.com/l/lenny

nurijanian.gumroad.com[FREE] 🔥The Lennyverse: A Themed Database of Lenny’s Newsletter PostsLenny’s Newsletter is a Product Management phenomenon 🔥But there are 100’s of posts by now 😅They’re spread all over! Substack only lets you sort by Top posts, and do a free-text search 🫠And even then, you can’t find a post if you’re looking for a specific topic, and if you find one, you have to k…

You can get it here & enjoy:

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👀 Crafting a Career Framework With Nikhyl Singhal

Recommended by Shreyas, I dove into Nikhyl’s podcast and was pleasantly surprised by the clarity of thought in his frameworks for career moves.

Whether you’re looking for a change, or were forced to look for a new role (sorry), this is a valuable video to watch.

In fact, I’d say it’s valuable in general, even if you’re comfortable where you are. Things change.

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🍪 Quick Bites

Amazon has developed a number of ways to solve for Goodhart's Law by dividing their metrics into 'controllable input metrics' and 'output metrics', and by encouraging trial and error with metrics, as well as having Finance investigate and dive deep into any metrics presented in the Weekly Business Review.

Cedric Chin @ejames_c

This week’s Commoncog essay is about How to Become Data Driven, at least according to Statistical Process Control. Their answer to that question is, perhaps, surprising: SPC practitioners believe the beginning of becoming data driven is … (drum rolls) understanding variation.

Patrick Campbell @Patticus

I've counseled 1.6k business execs the past decade. Want to know why most struggle? Business is a job to them. Not a craft. A craft requires constant studying. Here are the 24 books I re-read and study every year as part of my personal "business fundamentals course" 🧵

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😂 Meme

Alex Cohen @anothercohen

Product managers jumping into the Figma file to add comments for the designers

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That's a wrap for today. Stay focused and see you next week! If you want more, be sure to follow me on Twitter (@nurijanian)

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