Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

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Welcome to Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

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Mathias Griffe
Aug 28, 2022

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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.

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.

As a subscriber, you will get 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.

See you there!

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