Buddha to Bezos

Product lessons from the greatest innovators in history

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Product lessons from the greatest innovators in history

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Why Another Book on Product Management? Most product content is contextual. It cannot be applied, or we forget it soon. I wanted something timeless. Profound but simple concepts emerged when I studied the patterns of adoption across this huge timeline.

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Idam Dukkham (This is Pain) How does one conflate the spiritual, psychological, and political teachings of Buddha with product adoption strategies from one of the most exploitative person in human history? Indeed this represents Dunning-Kruger, but I also genuinely feel disappointed in your approach to philosophy and product development as it emulates oppression and propagates itself as liberation. As an ordained minister and well versed in Buddhist principle teachings, rethink this approach knowing that it engages in False Generosity and reinforces exploitation of humanity. For your own pathway towards liberation, please read Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed".

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6yr ago

Buddha to Bezos

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@ravi_bajnath As an ordained minister, your knowledge surpasses mine by miles, undoubtedly. The basics greatness and oppression lie in the same human emotions. The book is about the underlying emotions and showcases how something great can be created on top of it. It is by no means a comparison.

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6yr ago

@kush_apoorva Sometimes you need to get punched in the stomach hard enough to throw up all of the B.S. you've consumed. Once you're able to see it clearly, floating in the toilet, flush it down and work towards helping the poor and oppressed. Everything else is to exploit human emotions for personal gain, consciously or unconsciously. (Smoke some kush if you have it).

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6yr ago

Buddha to Bezos

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Thanks, @pollock for hunting. Hey Product Hunters, I am quite excited and pretty nervous to launch my first book. It explores the greatest fear all makers have: "Will people love what I am making?" And then there are some makers, whose products are hyper-adopted, repeatedly. The question is, do the greatest creators think in a pattern? And are there underlying principles that are timeless, and can be learned by the rest of us? My answer, of course, is yes. [Otherwise, it would be a spectacularly lousy book ;-)] The book covers product creation lessons from The Buddha, Jeff Bezos, Christopher Columbus, Sherlock Holmes, Rene Descartes, and more.

It also covers the journeys of some of the recent great products like Segment, ProductHunt (🤟), Google, Facebook, Youtube, and Evernote. Finally, I touch upon the popular frameworks and books like Hooked, Jobs to be Done, Innovator's Dilemma, BJ Figg Model, and many more.

I have tried to make this a fun read while tackling the profound topic of making great things. I hope you will like it. ----------------------------- Now the more important things :-) ❤️ ProductHunt Exclusive Discount Codes - PRODUCTHUNT (50% Off, 100 uses) and PH20 (20% off, unlimited) 📗 Read A Sample - Link (https://book-buddha-to-bezos.s3-...), No email is required. 📜 Table of contents: In the post images or here

---------------------------- *Praises from Makers* “Loved the book. It stripped the builder’s problem down to its bones." Rahul Mishra, Fibotalk.com “The wittiest and most comprehensive book on Product, ever" Sid Narayanan, CEO, Kleargroup.com "I became Naval after I read this book :). Jokes apart, it covers everything about product creation from tons of sources.” Madhu GB, Entrepreneur, Hacker "Recommended for anyone thinking of building a product" Avinash Raghav, SaaSBOOMi ---------------------------- *Disclaimer:* I do not claim to know any better than you. Instead, I am a mute observer, standing outside the "innovation zones". But I am taking notes, and drawing inferences for 2400 years ;-) And getting fascinated to see how timeless the Laws of Making are. Would love to answer any questions, critique, and feedback. Cheers :-)

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6yr ago

Augment

I've known @kush_apoorva for a while now, and I have been a first hand recipient of his `Buddha to product` moments. Glad to see his book coming out. I have read an early version - well, I liked the early cut as much as I liked Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari). Hope this goes big..

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6yr ago

Buddha to Bezos

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@beinganubhab Whoa, thanks so much Anubhab. That is a huge comparison. Really humbled.

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6yr ago

@kush_apoorva has put lots of complex ideas in a small package. I have a feeling that I will be re-reading this many times :) I have seen Utkarsh give away some of these ideas over the years. It is great to see it in the form of a book.

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6yr ago

Buddha to Bezos

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@madospace Thanks Maddy. This means so much to me. You re-reading my book is great validation 🥰.

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6yr ago

The Bold app

Wow, you hooked me. Will read it. I would be curious if you can share from your knowledge how you would judge our product and share feedback. 1 month Premium subscription in exchange ;) https://www.producthunt.com/post...

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6yr ago

Buddha to Bezos

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@mnikonor Hey Mikhail, thanks for your kind words. Will sure check out your product. I love to try new stuff and share whatever I can. Prima facie your product looks interesting - so I will hold you to that promise ;-)

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6yr ago

The Bold app

@kush_apoorva I keep my promises. Buy the way bought your book ;)

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6yr ago

The Bold app

By the way send the message to contact@thebold.app to get promo code. Could't find any way to share it safely here.

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6yr ago

Buddha to Bezos

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