The 5-Minute Startup CTO #71

Approach to 1-on-1s, Competitive research, Boy scout rule, Networking tools

Hi,

I hope you’re all well!

Here are this week’s 4 top links:

👭 People

Marco Rogers brilliantly details his approach to 1-on-1s, more precisely the 5 areas that he likes to touch on, with example questions and prompts for each. Definitely some gems in there to think about!

🥫 Product

“Companies that solely focus on competition will die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.”  – Edward de Bono

ProductPlan still makes the case for competitive research, with a 5-step plan to make this enrich your product decision making.

🔄 Process

Dan Moore explains, in one of his ‘Letters to a new developer’, the software equivalent of the boy scout rule: always leaving code better than how you found it. And how: document, upgrade, test, refactor. Good advice well worth sharing.

⌨️ Tech

Networking is one of those areas that every engineer should be comfortable with, at least to some extent. Martin Heinz has a nice overview of core networking tools, from DNS lookups, to port scanning, firewalls, and more.

Until next time, have a great week

Fabrice

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