Social Actions vs Player Types Why make this shift? Why not just stick with player types? I've tried both and found that, when teams build a social action matrix, several good things happen: • Once you remove the need to lump players into a limited number of categories, you open up the opportunity to create unique clusters of actions that describe the particular motivation of your players. This process is inherently more flexible than archetypes and leads to actionable output. • Your team focuses on the actions people take and the motivation behind those actions. This mapping makes it easier to translate unmet user needs (uncovered during customer discovery) into systems, features and UI affordances. • Once your team has a tool to rank and prioritize social actions, they're more effective at triaging and prioritizing bug fixes and new features throughout the product life cycle. • Once you visualize and identify the core social actions in your product, your team is better equipped to identify and focus on core social and progression systems. Not every team is good at systems thinking, so I embrace any tool that helps teams develop this crucial skill.

The False Constraints That Limit Your Potential: - The Size of Your Opportunities I see that the most successful people swing big, even when they have no business taking those swings, and they often land The difference between you and them is your "willingness" to believe you belong in bigger conversations.

The False Constraints That Limit Your Potential: - How Quickly You Can Scale Whether it's your business or your career, there are unspoken timelines that people accept as gospel.They are all untrue: "You can only really grow at 10% a year." "You need to pay your dues for a decade before getting promoted." These artificial limits keep people moving at a crawl when they could be sprinting or pushing for more. The most successful people I know refuse to accept conventional wisdom about timelines, and oddly enough, they break them all the time.

Our limits lie in our thinking. You need to root them out and rework them. A lack of self-belief will fundamentally change how you direct your actions...across all facets of your life. The person who thinks they "might not be capable" of being the next CTO will fill themselves with anxiety and be less likely to take any chances, even if they get there. Chances that might showcase their talents and make them outstanding in their work.

Keeping the Fire, Slaying the Dragon (Part II) - People won't promote or fund me vs I AM JUST TALKING TO THE WRONG PEOPLE - I'm not built like X person vs I CAN LEVERAGE WHAT / KNOW TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN - My company isn't built for distance vs I CAN ARCHITECT THIS TO GO WHERE I WANT - These might not work vs I WILL PUT THIS INTO THE WORLD AND SEE WHAT COMES