Noel Sequeira
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Product & Design @hxtweets. Incorrigible @ChelseaFC fan. @yogitar’s lesser half.
New York, NY
Joined June 2008
Make this the one thing you watch this week. @kevinyien's a gem — great at the craft, but also one of the most thoughtful, hardworking, and generous people you'll meet.
Kevin Yien (@kevinyien) is a PM I've admired from afar for a long time, so I was thrilled to have finally gotten him on the podcast. Kevin leads product for merchant experiences at @Stripe, previously built the restaurants business and ecosystem team at @Square, and was head of
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Painfully true. The challenge is there are a lot of "success stories" involving leaders who don't care for the craft, which sets up the wrong examples and perpetuates the cycle.
There’s a significant issue in Product Management. I've interviewed and spoken with hundreds of leaders in this field, and while they excel in many areas, they often fall short in the fundamental aspect of actually building products. Product management is not just an.
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@asmartbear Related: “Strategy” gets a bad rap and is low hanging fruit for dunks, but a little high quality critical thinking can spare you years of wasted effort / $$$.
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If there’s one post that you bookmark and revisit about AI strategy and startups vs incumbents, make it this, from @asmartbear.
longform.asmartbear.com
The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous technology revolutions like mobile and the Internet. Ignore this at your peril.
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The gift that keeps giving.
This is such a shining example of shipping your org chart (in a bad way) instead of thinking about how a normal person would actually think about it.
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Good time to fish this back out?.
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Good day for Sams everywhere.
🔥 Announcement time🔥. I’m excited to share Knock’s $12M Series A led by Craft Ventures. David Sacks is joining our board. Quick thread on what we’re building and where we’re going from here. 👇
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RT @samseely: 🔥 Announcement time🔥. I’m excited to share Knock’s $12M Series A led by Craft Ventures. David Sacks is joining our board. Qu….
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A lot of folks likely have regrets about the manner in which they went about it, rarely the decision itself. It's surprising how few managers have been trained to do this empathetically yet dispassionately. PIPs for instance, are a terribly abused tool.
This is not quite true, but it's remarkable how close to true it is, for such a blanket statement. I know people who regret layoffs they were forced to do by higher management, but I can't call to mind an example of anyone who regrets firing someone they chose to.
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This is a really helpful framework when scouting for early career, undiscovered talent in startups — when you are optimizing for exceptional aptitude and tenacity, but don’t have the luxury of relying on experience and accomplishments.
Startups need two types of people: 1) those who can do something crazy, time consuming, and truly novel 2) those who have enough wisdom and experience to distinguish the special sauce from the actually destructive unconventionality.
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I remember redlining PS + Sketch files a decade ago. Designers are still stuck redlining their Figma files today. We have a long, long way to go.
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Wonder what it’ll take to collectively get here, and why we’re not frustrated that we aren’t.
It’s 2024. Designers should not be redlining. In an ideal world, teams should work with what end users experience, not producing artifacts in Figma. The design-engineering handoff doesn't need to exist.
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Spinning up a thread to stitch together some tweets that get to heart of how I feel about design today.
A: Most designers are updating design files instead of production.
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Having spent years in a stagnant incumbent that shall not be named, started using @ashbyhq, and it is such breath of fresh air. Life's too short to not build delightful software, folks.
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💯 (as an Indian who has lived in both NYC and London).
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JTBD is a fantastic framework for product marketing, but has probably done product management as much harm as it has good.
The main problem I see with JTBD is teams using them to rephrase tasks. They are useful in framing what a team should solve, but detrimental at lower altitudes. I promise you there is no JTBD to make a button easier to find.
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“Incorrigible fan” was clearly the right choice of words for the bio. Fun afternoon, regardless. Carefree.
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If you’re wondering why, there’s this Bloomberg viz that’s doing the rounds.
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Good time to bubble this back up again.
Is there a great piece of writing unpacking Google's genuine sources of advantage and the relative role that distribution (Chrome, Android, spending to be the default on Firefox, Apple, etc) plays vs all the other strengths (brand, better search, network effects, etc)?.
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