Fortune’s Path: the Blog
Our collection of ideas and tools for building great products and leading a life founded on love. Because the best way to get rich is to help others.
Seven Signs of a Healthy Product
Want to become a beloved product? Look past market/fit to know if you have a healthy product that's ready to grow.
Katie Reilly: Winning is When all Boats Rise
Are product managers like general contractors? Is business a good tool to make the world a better place? And how is running a start-up like parenting? These are some of the questions Tom asks Katie Reilly, a Partner with TechCXO, in this episode of the Fortune’s Path podcast.
Benevolent Capitalists
Effective Altruism (EA), a trendy topic among technologists, advocates removing personal passions from giving decisions and relying on pure logic. We thought it would be interesting to look at the benevolent capitalists of the past and present to see how their excess capital shapes the world.
Robert Carroll: Interface Design and Asking, "What do you want to achieve?"
Robert Carroll, leader of award winning product and marketing teams and a successful entrepreneur, talks about the differences between managing physical products and software, interface design, and why it's important to know what you want to achieve when you start a business, in this episode of the Fortune’s Path podcast.
What to Do About American Capitalism
We use the results of our survey on generational attitudes about the America economic system as a starting point to discuss what to do about American capitalism from a product management point of view.
What You're Reading: Results from our Summer Reading Survey
This summer, Fortune’s Path sent a survey to all of its newsletter subscribers and LinkedIn followers. We had seen reports that Americans are reading more than ever, but reading fewer books. We wondered, what, then, were they reading, and how were they accessing the content?
John Farkas: Collaborative Leadership
Entrepreneur and marketer John Farkas tells how he created a digital agency built around the power of story telling. John discusses his background in theater and how that shaped his views about communication, business, leadership, and collaboration.
Hard Truths: The Psychology of Subsidies
Corporations and wealthy individuals spend billions to influence local, state, and federal lawmakers. That influence is used, at least in part, to convince lawmakers to subsidize the work in which the influencers are engaged.
Chris Gann: Only Fools are Certain
Chris Gann, Vice President of Product for HealthStream, believes it's better to be skeptical than confident, but customers demand confidence. Chris's long history of working in innovation and technology has taught him the core of product management is knowing you don't know, working to get smarter, and always remaining open-minded.
Is UBI the next frontier in the battle over the American welfare state?
American politics is divided by competing answers to one fundamental question: what are the government’s responsibilities to its citizens?
The Founders agreed that citizens had certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and that government maintained its moral authority only if it protected these rights. Their agreements stopped there.