#1 Knowledge follows form. #2 100% excellent delivery gets you 0% further. #3 Innovation is fake. Listen, combine, and share! #4 Time is limited. 9pm to 5am is the sweet spot. #5 When you fully commit, the Universe conspires to make it happen. #6 Find your superpower and become you #7 Learn horizontally to increase your UVP #8 Invest in communication to control how others perceive you!!! #9 Career is your song, not a ladder #10 Smile

1. 10LEARNINGS ABOUT
WORK, LIFE, AND MAGIC
by Amancio Bouza

2. #1 KNOWLEDGE FOLLOWS FORM
Pick a form
Give it a title
Fill, think, learn, and repeat
2
“You already know. Use forms to guide you to explicit knowledge.”
https://medium.com/api-product-management/two-breeds-of-api-api-products-and-api-solutions-fa726213ecea

3. #2 TOP-1% REQUIRES
TOP-1% EFFORT
What do you want?
What can you sacrifice?
Learn to say “NO”
3
“100% excellent delivery gets you 0% further”

4. #3 INNOVATION IS AN ILLUSION
1. Listen
2. Adopt & Combine
3. Share
4. Go to 1.
4
“Innovation is fake. There’s no approach. Instead, have an open
mindset: In and Out”

5. #4 TIME IS LIMITED AND FIXED
1. Be creative from 9pm to 5am
2. Learn to Scale and to Leverage
3. Plan for Transition
4. Patience
5
“Rethink when and how you do things”
https://day9.tv/

6. #5 BEST OUTCOME WHEN YOU
COMMIT WITH YOUR HEART
1. Fully commit
2. Act as if it’s your own
business. Care!
3. Give and help others
6
“When you commit with your heart, then the Universe conspires to
make it successful.”
Andrea Z.
a client
https://medium.com/api-product-management

7. #6 BECOME YOU
What’s your superpower?
Ask others.
What makes you happy?
How can you use your
superpower to create value?
7
“Reflect regularly what you want.”

8. #7 LEARN TO COMMUNICATE
1. Be aware that you get one #
2. Communicate your chosen #
3. Personal branding is the tool
to make others see the right #
8
“Your #TAG is your choice. Branding is the way to communicate.”
https://www.slideshare.net/cPOEt/how-to-use-personal-branding-to-stand-out-72587334

9. #8 HORIZONTAL LEARNING
Identify unique skills
Learn these skills to create
unique value
9
“Find the right mix of keeping up-to-date and become unique.”
VALUE
UNIQUNESS
https://youtu.be/AHFiSRrqv28

10. #9 CONTINUOUS CAREER
Career is not a ladder.
Career is a song you write and play.
Great careers have a great melody
and timing with ups and downs.
The story to the melody is written
afterwards, always.
10
“Career is not a planned waterfall process. Career is not agile.”

11. #10 SMILE
Smiling is a human superpower
Be human: empathic,
compassionate
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“Smiling is everybodies superpower.”

12. @AmancioBouza
Amancio BouzaAPI is the interface to a value proposition
API & AI Enthusiast, Dot Connector,
Author of API Product Management
• Principal Consultant, ipt
• Catalyst, The Digital Journeymen
• Startup Advisor, Recipe
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amanciobouza
@amancio.bouza
amanciobouza.com