• VO2 Max

    A measurement of cardiovascular fitness and endurance by measuring the max oxygen the body can consume during exercise.

  • Rich Hickey

    Computer scientist and musician that designed the Clojure programming language. Has given many influential talks about functional programming.

  • Themes Conceptualize a Roadmap

    A long list of ships is neither useful nor effective without a way for the team to conceptualize the main ideas and how it adds up to achieving a set of goals.

  • Spell Check Test

    When designing a review processes within an organization, tease apart the different functions of how the process works then ask which parts are more like ‘spell check’.

  • Adjacent User Theory

    Funnel metrics tend to decline with each successive cohorts as a company grows and saturates segments that have strong product market fit.

  • Memex Device

    A fictional device from the essay As We May Think, written in 1945 by Vannevar Bush, which both stores knowledge (books, notes, annotations, conversations) and connections between them allowing someone to follow trails of associated knowledge.

  • Conway's Law

    A company tends to design systems that mirror their communication structure e.

  • 85% Rule

    When doing an activity that requires peak performance, strive for 85% of what you believe is your best.

  • Sword of Damocles

    A parable of where Damocles who, after exulting how nice it must be to be king was offered to switch places with the king Dionysius for a day.

  • Flesch Reading Ease Test

    Determines the grade level required to read a text based on a score of average sentence length and average syllables per word.

  • Rust

    A statically typed programming language which enforces writing code that is free from certain memory errors (use after free, dangling pointers).

  • Melissa Dell

    Economist and professor at Harvard, winner of the John Bates Clark Medal.

  • Eigenvector Goals

    Setting a goal around a metric that is the result of the output of other metrics and goals being driven.

  • Felt Sense

    Something that can be perceived that is not based on a physical sensation such as intuiting or a gut feeling.