Weekly Digest #181

Articles

Unspoken Startup Folk Wisdom

• Important Projects Must Have Exactly One Owner
• Hire For Talent Over Experience
• Promote From Within, Often
• Hard Work Works

Hiring (and managing) cracked engineers

• Prioritizing making cracked people more cracked

Project Manager vs Product Manager: Unveiling the Critical Differences

Product Manager

• crafting the product vision and strategy
• guiding teams through influence and inspiration
• owning the product’s financial performance
• making data-driven decisions based on research
• exploring new market opportunities for growth
• prioritizing user feedback and client needs
• determining the most impactful problem to solve

Project Manager

• defining project scope, effort, and resource requirement
• developing and tracking comprehensive project plans
• enabling seamless team collaboration and communication
• proactively addressing risks and resolving issues

Tutorials

Queueing An interactive study of queueing strategies

Tools

nannyml: post-deployment data science in python

langfuse: Open source LLM engineering platform: Observability, metrics, evals, prompt management, playground, datasets

Off-topic

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