Buddha to Bezos

I'm always game to learn from the greats, including @rrhoover @nireyal @hnshah

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".

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 :-)

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..

Seems great! Can't wait to read it! :)

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...

I just purchased it :), did not read it yet, but you definitely should have used a smaller font!