About Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

A weekly drop of the 1% best, most actionable, and timeless resources to grow as an engineering or product leader. Curated from our world's best authors and companies. Written by Product & Engineering leader Mathias Griffe, founder and CTO at Bigblue and previously a software engineer at Apple and Vimeo.

Reading software engineering articles is like being a Seed start-up investor.

• You have to skip through 100 titles to find an interesting one;

• Your decision to invest time reading an article will be entirely based on its title, author, and pictures;

On the 100 articles you’ll end up reading:

• 80 will be utterly useless (-100% Return on Investment)

• 8 will be worth 1-5x your time (100%-500% ROI)

• 🦄 2 will change you forever (5000% ROI)

If you do your job and are a little lucky, you will have a positive ROI. But you’ll have to take risks, and consistently invest time into reading.

I could go on forever. I truly love analogies 🙃.

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants was born to help leaders get that reading ROI by investing time into the 🦄 unicorn product & software engineering articles.

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