From Our Lab to Yours โ A Knowledge Index for Product Builders
Welcome to Lab Notes. This space is dedicated to sharing what we’ve learned from our journey in the tech industry, spanning strategies, ideas, and the direct applications that have shaped our careers and ventures. It’s a compilation of both long-term learnings and emerging thoughts, emphasizing the importance of documenting the process as ideas evolve.
Here, you’ll find our “second brain๐ง second brain – a method for indexing what you know, experienced, or learned for future reference, especially useful for stuff easily forgotten yet is the basis of your future beliefs. This is an idea coined by Tiago Forte and illustrated and written about by Maggie Appleton while taking a course on it. This concept is adjacent in philosophy to digital gardens. ,” a collection of lessons we’ve picked up along the way. It’s centered around the experiences we’ve had โ from enlightening conversations and impactful reads to the problems and solutions we’ve identified along the way. So much of this valuable knowledge is often overlooked in the fast pace of our daily work, particularly the insights that don’t get the chance to be written down. Our aim is to start recording these observations as they emerge, nurturing them into fully formed principles and practices to guide us and you. We’re not just sharing; we’re inviting you into a cycle of continuous learning and mutual growth.
In Lab Notes, you’ll encounter articles at various stages of refinement:
๐ต Brew : Emerging ideas and observations, fresh and exploratory.
๐งช Potion : Developed concepts, tested and analyzed.
๐ Eternal : Fully-realized insights, our evergreen content.
Recognizing the diversity of our audience, each note is crafted with a specific type of reader in mind:
These personas ensure that you can easily find content that resonates with your interests and professional focus. Which one do you identify with the most?
We plan to write for other audiences too (Entrepreneurial Spirits, Holistic Leaders, Precision Analysts, Fulfillment Chasers and Knowledge Guardians), but are not focusing on them at the moment.
Want to see more articles for one of these audiences?
Do you identify as a different audience persona?
Reach out, we’d love to hear from you.
It includes our latest articles and thoughts. Sent roughly 1x a month.