Anchors
| Anchor text | Ref. domains ▾ | Top DR | Ref. pages | Links to target | Dofollow links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Beautiful Mess | 7 | — | 0 | 8 | 8 100% |
| 3 | — | 0 | 10 | 10 100% | |
| John Cutler | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| Debt and Bridge Building | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 1 50% |
| https://cutlefish.substack.com/ | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 0 0% |
| Effort vs. Value curves | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| Don't Fix Things. Write a New Story | 2 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| here | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| John Cutlers blog, The Beautiful Mess | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Why Aren't We Talking About Continuous Improvement? | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| The Beautiful Mess John Cutler - Product development nut Amplitude. I love wrangling complex problems/answering the why with qual/quant data. | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Part 3 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| The Beautiful MessThe Beautiful MessBy John Cutler | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| einen unterschiedlichen Detailgrad der Roadmap-Punkte | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| TBM 215: Shallow vs. Deep AlignmentI originally posted this on LinkedIn a couple days ago. It is rare that I post something, and then repost on the newsletter, but I liked this short post. “We’re 100% aligned!” Oh really? “We finished our OKRs! We’re aligned!” Oh really? “The team agreed on action items!” Oh really?The Beautiful MessJohn Cutler | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| 20 Things I’ve Learned as a Systems (Over) Thinker | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Part 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| “Vision” and Prescriptive Roadmaps | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| The ultimate guide to developer counter-productivity | 1 | — | 0 | 5 | 5 100% |
| The Seduction (And Folly) Of Rollups, Points, and (Most) Time Tracking | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Right now we are working to improve the | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Layoffs, Pendulums, Layers, and Gemba Walks | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 0 0% |
| Just… | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-385-we-have-to-simplify | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| TBM 245: The Magic Prioritization TrickHere is a fun prioritization exercise. Some have described it as a Jedi mind trick. It is very simple but it plays with people’s head in a good way. It draws heavily from Joshua Arnold’s work on cost of delay, particularly this article on qualitative cost of delayThe Beautiful MessJohn Cutler | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Working with very confident people (who dismiss you) | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| about it | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| TBM 27/52: Mandate Levels | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| John Cutler: Scaled Feature Factories | 1 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| Part 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Old Guard, New Guard | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| https://cutlefish.substack.com/i/142017363/patience-and-self-repair | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| https://cutlefish.substack.com/i/142017363/anticipate-effects | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| TBM 266: Human load balancers, renegades, insiders, and platform saviors (part 4) | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Visuel_Vignette_NL_150x190px_72dpi9 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| data-informed product loop look | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| John | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Why Goal Cascades are Harmful (and What to Do Instead) | 1 | — | 0 | 2 | 2 100% |
| Amplitude’s John Cutler | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| TBM 335: “Simple” Dependency CoordinationA lot of teams approach dependencies like this:The Beautiful MessJohn Cutler | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| The Beautiful Mess Newsletter → | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Good Goals/Bad Goals | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| John Cutler's newsletters | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Deep vs. Broad Context Traps | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Models help us fill that gap | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| The Current Tech Puzzle | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Rebuilding Trust and Breaking Free From Trust Proxies and The Swirl | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| TBM 289: The Boring Product Manifesto | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| The Real-World Journey to Value and Product-Centricity | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
| Why didn’t they say no? | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 1 100% |
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