Ilya Sterin's Newsletter
Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Notes
Archive
About
New
Top
Discussion
Fat-tailed distribution of project risk
This weekend, I'm diving into the book "How Big Things Get Done". It explores the concept of a fat-tailed distribution in project outcomes. After…
Sep 4
•
Ilya Sterin
Share this post
Fat-tailed distribution of project risk
ilya.blog
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
Other
July 2023
Managing strategic work in the whirlwind of small and urgent tasks
As we further adopt Shape Up, I’ve heard numerous teams struggling to understand how to adopt Shape Up in the context of how they currently work. One…
Jul 29
•
Ilya Sterin
4
Share this post
Managing strategic work in the whirlwind of small and urgent tasks
ilya.blog
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
Other
January 2023
Forgetting (Book Review)
For most people, forgetting is a cause of anxiety. But forgetting is the brain’s routine for optimizing storage, consolidating thoughts, and building…
Jan 15
•
Ilya Sterin
Share this post
Forgetting (Book Review)
ilya.blog
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
Other
November 2022
Engineers who navigate optionality (going uphill)
As we think about audacious goals for next year and how to organize teams for success, we’re thinking about the skills required for team flow. If you’re…
Nov 25, 2022
•
Ilya Sterin
4
Share this post
Engineers who navigate optionality (going uphill)
ilya.blog
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
Other
2
April 2021
Async work
In software development, synchronous processes are easy to reason about; they are sequential, more deterministic, and require less integration testing…
Apr 28, 2021
•
Ilya Sterin
Share this post
Async work
ilya.blog
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
Other
November 2020
The economics of product tradeoffs
The word tradeoff has become ubiquitously overused and misunderstood in product development.
Nov 27, 2020
•
Ilya Sterin
Share this post
The economics of product tradeoffs
ilya.blog
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
Other
July 2020
Your artificial brain
A couple of months ago I stumbled on something which stopped me in my tracks. I realized that the way I consume and retain information and…
Jul 10, 2020
•
Ilya Sterin
Share this post
Your artificial brain
ilya.blog
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
Other
June 2020
B2B buyers have emotions, too
When I first learned about Jobs To Be Done from Bob Moesta and Chris Spiek, one of the core concepts that stuck with me was the emotional…
Jun 1, 2020
•
Ilya Sterin
1
Share this post
B2B buyers have emotions, too
ilya.blog
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
Other
August 2019
Turn your guesstimates into estimates
Our process of scoping work, and estimating the time it will take, is fundamentally broken.
Aug 9, 2019
•
Ilya Sterin
Share this post
Turn your guesstimates into estimates
ilya.blog
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
Other
July 2019
The timing myth
For most successful companies or products you hear about these days, you hear stories about similar ideas that failed.
Jul 12, 2019
•
Ilya Sterin
Share this post
The timing myth
ilya.blog
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
Other
June 2019
Innovation is a process, not a roadmap
I often hear of a company’s innovation roadmap. I’m always perplexed: How can something that is by nature amorphous have a blueprint…
Jun 29, 2019
•
Ilya Sterin
1
Share this post
Innovation is a process, not a roadmap
ilya.blog
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
Other
May 2019
The perils of incessant teamwork
During a casual evening conversation, a startup CEO asked me, “What are the qualities we should be looking for in a good remote employee?”
May 15, 2019
•
Ilya Sterin
Share this post
The perils of incessant teamwork
ilya.blog
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
Other
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts
