Coming Soon - High Absolute Value
What does High Absolute Value mean?
It’s an algebraic term. Absolute Value means distance from zero. -5 for example has an absolute value of 5. High Absolute Value is a philosophy of mine and how I like to orient my activities. I want to do things that matter, and, if successful, will represent a lot of value to society. But I recognize there’s a risk of failure. And if I’m going to fail, I want to fail in pursuit of something big. Hence, High Absolute Value.
So, what will I write about here?
Principally it will be different ways of thinking about how to make personal decisions, product decisions, and business decisions. There will occasionally be some imaginative conjecture (example: Did NASA start upping its press releases before the election because they knew people just wanted out?!).
One area in particular that I plan to write about is my experience innovating in high risk, regulated areas such as safety technology. Expect a series on building trust. Digital technology is increasingly getting applied to these high-risk, complex, trust-needing areas but no one is talking about it. Seems important.
Who would love this?
Three sets of folks:
Those who are building products, services, and processes that need to have trust as a core component.
Those who are curious about different ways to put the puzzle pieces of different disciplines together. For example, how does analytics and psychology go together? Well, we’ll talk about that.
Those who like me for whatever reason!
Who am I?
I’m Preet Anand.
I founded the safety & risk technology area at Lyft, ultimately growing it to over 75 people, established a lot of how we culturally approach safety, and led the Health Safety Program to keep the community safe during COVID-19. I’m also the President of Snug, a daily check-in service for seniors living alone. Before these, I started and sold a company focused on making 911 calls smarter. More than 7,000 are people are still alive because of the work I have been a part of.
Believe it or not though, saving lives and innovating in high risk areas isn’t all that I’ve done. I was the youngest Lead Product Manager in Zynga’s history back in the day and I was in the top 1,000 in the world at the VR game Longbow.
I’m also a very proud dad, husband, son, sibling, and community member.
Done some other fun things too like being a short time standup comic. You can learn more on LinkedIn and in my user manual.
Clearly you can see I beat to my own drum.
So you are stoked and curious? Tell others who would love High Absolute Value!