Noah Weiss

I've been going through this list: https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/50-articles-and-books-that-will-make-yo… Includes books and articles. Been very helpful so far.

Start with this list: https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/50-articles-and-books-that-will-make-yo…

I have never taken any formal training, but the new General Assembly courses look fantastic for getting into Product: https://generalassemb.ly/ As for resources, Noah Weiss just posted a great article listing a ton of books and articles for product managers: https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/50-articles-and-books-that-will-make-yo…

Here is what I did when I moved from development to product & Marketing 1. Follow people in the same field 2. Ready up on blogs and posts : I use Zite, Flipboard and medium 3. A book that helped me to a large extent is Good to great by Jim Collins (http://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Companies-Leap-Others/dp/0066620996) Also The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman http://www.amazon.com/Personal-MBA-World-Class-Business-Education-eboo… 4. Video from people in the same field. 5. This article https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/50-articles-and-books-that-will-make-yo… Some great tools: 1. Trello - Project/product and pretty much manage any thing 2. Qlikview - Data Analysis : Excel on Steroids It's a very short list, but I am learning on the job :)

I agree anyone competent enough to run a good FOSS project from their savings will face a daily temptation of abandoning their precarious existence for a substantial secure income working at a corporate job. And I agree also that it is problematical how to divide donations to a project when there are multiple contributors (especially versus donations to specific developers, but even that is problematic if a multi-person project is involved). I also agree on the need for building a community around a project. Where we differ regarding the BI and FOSS is possibly in thinking in these areas: * There are many small but important projects (Mithril, Vue, many others -- even Linux early on) which are initially the work of one developer, eventually supported by a community. A BI would make more such starts possible, and also make contributions more feasible. While it is not quite "if you build it, they will come", certainly there are a lot of cases where a good project, well supported by one person, makes a big difference to a lot of people. Khan Academy in its early years is another great example of this. * There is an entire gift economy of volunteerism. In some ways, much economic activity in even the USA is voluntary (even if it is ignored in the GDP) when you consider child care, helping neighbors, volunteering at non-profits, conversing with strangers to share knowledge, and so on. So, I know it is possible. * Regarding "most people" and "some people": If you multiple…

Slack's search team is based in NYC: https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/starting-up-slack-s-search-learning-int…

Some background on their rationale: https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/the-lego-block-exercise-4c7d60eeb38f