3 products left, but today shortform
Hi friend 👋,
I was a guest on one of Turkey's product management podcasts a few years back. As you get older, everyone starts asking for guidance for novices. The most prevalent unknowns are what to read and where to begin. I answered this query by recommending fiction literature, novels by master storytellers such as Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Hemingway. I was worried of coming out as a party-killer, but these were my honest recommendations, and they remain so. I don't believe that we or the next generation consume less valuable things; nonetheless, hardly one takes the time to think about what they read. That is the allure of novels. They provide you a time and place to ponder, as well as an analogy, and then allow you to generate wisdom from it. Once you get acclimated to it, this strategy gives you skills in life to think about other topics and to comprehend people in new ways. Consider all of the awful TikTok videos and scumbags in them; novels can help you comprehend their reasonings and what they gone through in the past. You may potentially be able to foresee the future with this method.
As you might expect, I'm a major fan of novels but not so much of non-fiction. When I try to read one, I keep thinking about how many of the sentences are identical. There are excellent nonfiction books that can broaden your horizons, but sometimes I can't help but think that the same information could have been conveyed more effectively in a five-minute video. I'll present an alternative tool that serves a similar purpose today.
Today, shortform is our product.
There are several other book summary websites available, however Shortform stands out due to the high quality of their summaries. They assembled a fantastic team of readers and storytellers and built the product around them. I read a number of book summaries from the platform, and they were excellent. It also includes audio options for listening to while driving. There is nothing excessively flashy or out of date about the design. Their YouTube account contains numerous sample book analysis films, both with human readers and with animated characters.
It was our final weekend together. Weekends were for our guilty pleasures, and nothing makes me feel more guilty than promoting a book summary app. But you get the point. It is reserved for nonfiction books. We will have a formal farewell piece, but this is a farewell from the weekend series. I hope you enjoyed it.
We’ll talk again tomorrow.
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