* **Stand on the shoulders of giants** There's no reason to reinvent the
wheel. Focus on your core product and leverage everything else.
* **Make it useable** Sure, you’ve got a great product, but can your grandma
figure out how to use it?
* **Focus on action, not on the fruits of action**; avoid attraction to the
fruits and attachment to inaction.
* **Fail early, fail often.** Googlely speaking, it means that your products
should be in a perpetual beta stage. To a Microsoftie this means that the
third version of a product should kick a lot of ass.
* **Never have responsibility without authority.**
* **It is better to be trusted than loved.** Be open and transparent.
* **Be capable of delivering**. Sure, talk it up, but be capable of delivering.
Inspired by
* [37signals][1]
* [Thelonius Monk][2]
[1]: http://www.37signals.com/manifesto
[2]: /images/thelonius_monks_notes.jpg
Last updated: Monday, December 29th, 2008
