🎾 The Best Newsletters and Blogs for Data, Product Analysis, and Data Engineering — and Learn How to Synthesize Research Like a PM

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

Each week, I want to hypnotise you to become a better product & technology leader.

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Today we have:

• The Best Blogs and Newsletters to Read About Data and Product Analysis, Data Science, and Data Engineering

• There Is No “Better” Strategy, Only What You Pick

• Synthesizing Research as a PM and Taking Action Before Knowing Enough

+ a meme for my VC haters 😂

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📚 The Best Blogs and Newsletters to Read About Data and Product Analysis, Data Science, and Data Engineering

It is my firm belief that companies who get the value of measurement have the highest chance of winning in the market, all things being equal.

But you probably already know that measurement is a good thing. (Unless you’re one of those who take apple pie positions about the evils of measurement “because Goodhart’s Law”. We're not friends, I'm sorry.)

The best thing you can do is subscribe your execs to all these blogs and say nothing of it. A few of them probably secretly feel the same way as you about metrics & data, and over time you’ll see a rise in the level of conversations across the org. Or you’ll get reprimanded. This is not career advice!

Here is a roundup of the best blogs and newsletters for analytics, data, finance, and engineering 👇🏽

Each blog or newsletter covers different topics related to analytics, data science, deep learning, product analytics, business, finance, and data engineering.

It's also where my friend Olga wrote about me, so in exchange, I write about her here and she writes about me there.

A Roundup of Blogs and Newsletters About Analytics - Issue 133

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👀 There Is No “Better” Strategy, Only What You Pick

This idea might not be news to you.

I might be too deep in my deep dive on how/where to build a B2B SaaS, so my mental shelf is primed for this information.

The example ~ 11:25 compares Adyen (with a lot of enterprise customers) & Stripe (with a long tail of SMBs) only to say: neither angle is “best”. It’s what you pick:

It was a good way to frame as well the trade-offs you’d be making.

It also points out founder/market fit: if you’re someone who’s good at sales, you’d probably pick Enterprise, and if you’re a product founder, SMB might be a better play.

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🍪 Quick Bites

ibrahim @ibscribe

Many PM teams do research, but don’t synthesize learnings, failing to convert information into knowledge and action... And that’s why this template really resonated with me - it's a low-effort / high-leverage way to summarize research, synthesize learning, and prep action.

Hà Phan @hpdailyrant

At one point, a peer said to me, “If you want to solve a problem just do it.” I took it to mean that I don’t need to be anointed. It was the start of a few rogue projects that became big strategic things. Then I was anointed the expert after. That has shaped how I work.

Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi

If you have all the information to make a perfect decision, you missed the opportunity.

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😂 Meme

Stonks.com @Stonks_dot_com

VCs trying to figure out who caused extremely inflated startup valuations for the last two years

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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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