Let’s get started with our new book series. I’m kicking off the Life at the Speed of Play read-along, starting with Reid Hoffman’s foreword and Mark Pincus’s introduction. This is a short intro episode to help you decide if you want to journey through the book with me. I’ll be doing roughly one chapter a week through the end of September.

What you’ll learn:

* Why I’m anchoring this next stretch of episodes in Mark Pincus’s book, and my loose reading cadence (about one chapter a week, wrapped by end of Q3)

* Reid Hoffman’s foreword idea of “what game are you playing” and “what’s your theory of the game,” and why that framing hit home for me as both a product leader and a recovering serial idea-generator

* Why generating ideas isn’t the hard part for me… killing them is, and why I think that’s the real skill this book is going to help me build

* My take on Pincus’s line that “corporate” really means “lack of thought or intent,” and why I push back on that a little, because being intentional and thoughtful in a corporate role is exactly what I get paid to do

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