So, to me, product development is a process that starts with a conversation with your customers and ends when the product (or at least a small piece of it) is in the customer's hands. That's best done fully collaboratively with a team having every skill necessary to get it out the door.
5/8

In cutthroat cultures, people kiss up and kick down. They protect themselves by currying favor with people in power and exploiting those without it.

In supportive cultures, people speak up and shield down. They protect others who lack power by raising problems to those who have it.

It looks to me that the Trump administration's philosophy is:

Money over people, truth, values, and international cooperation.

Everything is a transaction.
The powerful exploits the weak.

Regardless of who or what is on the other side. Including their own people or their own country's interest.

Wisdom doesn’t come from experience. It comes from reflecting on experience.

Between ages 25 and 75, the correlation between age and wisdom is zero.

Gaining insight and perspective is not about the number of years you've lived. It's about the number of lessons you've learned.

We pay too much attention to the most confident voices—and too little attention to the most thoughtful ones.

Conviction is not a sign of credibility. Speaking assertively is not a substitute for reflecting deeply.

It's better to learn from complex thinkers than smooth talkers.

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."