This episode, @prlambert, founder of Quilt, talks society-scale problems, why searching for product-market fit is overrated, building a better mousetrap, why the “internal incubator” model usually fails, and how modern hardware startups iterate rapidly. https://t.co/y5Ku3sIenp

There’s been a lot of interest in how we built the LLM-powered Feedback Wizard, so we wrote a blog post to give you a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges we faced and what we learned along the way: https://t.co/dlw9V9mDeW

This episode @dennispilarinos, founder of Buddybuild and Unblocked (and fmr. Director at Microsoft, Amazon, & Apple) shares what he’s learned: why you should build a hard product, staying deeply curious, cutting down meetings, and outcompeting the giants. https://t.co/XYjyCUEQ7A

We have a tradition of printing notebooks every year, and this year’s theme is “Make Thoughtful Bets”. You never know exactly how a design concept will turn out, but feels like this time we rolled a natural 20?

Ada co-founder @davehariri shares the audacious product process that led to a 250-person startup, strengths and weaknesses of LLM techniques like code execution, RAG, and function calling, and how support automation may create whole new business models. https://t.co/JAT35MrR2C

Michael Lopp, aka @rands, joined Allen to talk about the need for growth, your team’s core motivations, writing for clarity of thought, the joys and perils of writing a book, the art of presentations, and fostering curiosity on your team. https://t.co/ucqNupYCDA

This episode, @theophani, former VP Eng at SoundCloud, shares lessons about where new managers stumble and how to support them, coaching managers through their first case of underperformance, and the cultural responsibilities of senior leadership. https://t.co/cQ6NVZ855B

This episode @adamlisagor, Founder of Sandwich, shares what he’s learned about telling the story of a product, how products make us feel, spotting great talent, making pretty good decisions quickly, and letting go (a little bit) as a founder. https://t.co/9Fd2whcKgu

Do you or any of your team members struggle with giving feedback? Try out our latest experiment, The Feedback Wizard. It’s practically magic.✨ https://t.co/tZLPsW0kVq

Free this Wednesday? Pop in for some snacks/drinks and chat with Vancouver tech folks at Steamclock’s latest Open House. The other Gastown Steam Clock will be providing background music.

Ridwell Co-Founder @aliyamarder joins us to share lessons about running a startup with a real-world mission, small but mighty product teams, the pathologies of product backlogs, and pushing ourselves to delegate. https://t.co/THLn5GBLxE

This episode, Later CTO @imackinn shares lessons from founding through acquisition: early engineering wins, approaches for moving fast, the insurmountability of building the wrong thing, and Later’s successes using GPT-4 to modernize legacy code. https://t.co/0H34JICnPa

📣 New case study! Learn how we teamed up with our friends at Ridwell to build a high-quality native iOS app that makes reusing and recycling easier than ever – all in less than six months. https://t.co/PXLqSjYQRO

This It Shipped That Way, @robotpony, Senior Product Manager at Mailchimp, shares lessons about the joy of being a multi-disciplinarian, engineering leadership vs. product leadership, the value of repeating yourself, and the value of repeating yourself. https://t.co/ClIXkiXKXC

This It Shipped That Way, Slack’s Director of DevRel Engineering @stevesgill shares what he’s learned about building great APIs for developers, maintaining high quality SDKs, how Slack’s new composable apps APIs work, and the importance of saying “no”. https://t.co/aYNhFrrbZg

This episode Nik Pinski, Principal Engineer at AWS, shares how AWS is organized for autonomy and customer-centric product work, dealing with millions of events per second, and how “Staff-plus” career tracks work across different software organizations. https://t.co/VMAPpbIwo9

Co-founder of Opendoor @ihat shares what he learned about machine learning as CTO there: the importance of humans in the loop for predictive AI, scaling an engineering org, battling fraud in his days at Square, and why many internal tooling projects fail. https://t.co/1S5HfqdstA

One more sleep until the Vancouver UX Awards! ✨ We can’t wait to catch up with old friends, and make some new ones, while we check out the very best in UX design that Vancouver has to offer! Tickets are available:

Netflix’s unique culture, architecting apps at scale, avoiding the pathologies of very large engineering teams, and juggling A/B tests for many millions of users: our latest episode with @danieltiger is a fun one. https://t.co/Ty96Vz4hY7

Love SwiftUI? Hate busywork? Us too! Introducing ✨ NiceComponents ✨, our new open source library for automating repetitive SwiftUI setup tasks. https://t.co/C8fLyk2pPA