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the craft of PM | product leader @thumbtack @dropbox @expedia | seeking nuance, not absolutes
Seattle, WA
Joined December 2019
convo with a friend. "role fit" isn't just about what you see that you like, or what speaks to you. it's about finding ways to be intrigued about the tradeoffs too, and to see them as part of the overall deal you embrace. much like relationships, it calls for accepting a full.
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RT @vixsheikh: If you are too trusting, the risk is getting hurt. If you are not trusting enough, the risk is a self-fulfilling prophecy. B….
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you cannot apologize for your interests. once you start doing that they start slipping away. unapologetically obsessed is the only way.
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Some of the most talented people I have worked with are what I’d refer to as “nuggety” personalities. They have crispy, sharp-edged exteriors - but are warm & tender inside. They work with positive intent and genuine commitment, but engage with others through cold interactions,.
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I asked and @pau_wee_ delivered. Great little thread here. “it's an active and continuous skill of balancing imagination and constraint”. Couldn’t have said it better myself.
@vixsheikh but before any task, there is the anti-task, which is:. okay, what is the space of possible actions? .what results do i care about? which will i forgo?.which constraints are inflicted by reality, and which constraints do i want to set for myself to create focus?.
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“Raising the bar” is often motivated by better outcomes or outputs. But the way to raise the bar on the outcomes is to raise the bar on the inputs. The fundamentals. In product work, the fundamentals boil down to a few things:. 1️⃣ The quality of the team . 2️⃣ The clarity of the.
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Problem selection is a great problem to solve! It’s the discretion needed to know what balls can be dropped or cans can be kicked. And deceptively hard.
I used to think it the goal was solving problems, not just kicking the can down the road. Increasingly, I think kicking the can down the road is basically the optimal approach to most issues.
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If you are too trusting, the risk is getting hurt. If you are not trusting enough, the risk is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Both risks are personal. One is painful, the other is numbing - it’s pain avoidance. Neither is necessarily better. Both are choices.
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Interesting piece. Two product related points in there worth calling out:. 1️⃣ “My role was relational, not task-based. Someone had to be the fall guy; someone had to herd the cats". It is maddening for me to see how much focus is applied to the task-oriented parts of the job,.
I keep changing my mind about the AI jobs crisis so jotted down 42 notes on where I’m at:. 1) You don’t need mass unemployment to inspire mass fear—merely its shadow is enough. Just look at SAG-AFTRA and the port strikes last year. 2) Most AI backlash is economic anxiety coated
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Inspiration. Perspiration. In that order. It is literally irrational to go the other way, if your ambition is to win.
Great business people are idealistic first and realistic second. This is how they generate vision and then turn it into reality. Most business people are realistic first and idealistic second. This is how they form basic strategies and then believe their disengaged crappy.
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Thought-provoking from @anuatluru. Each prompt acts as a micro-dose of validation and simulation.
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1️⃣ whether this was built with love and care .2️⃣ what caliber of talent you are able to recruit .3️⃣ how high your standards are. these are all connected. but it is important to note that talent density & quality bar are derivative of 1️⃣. it all starts with care first.
More than words, companies communicate through design and engineering. Things like:. - whether this was built with love and care.- what caliber of talent you are able to recruit.- how high your standards are. …all come through loud and clear when people use the product.
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[sausage-making] .When I first drafted this essay, I structured it in the form of "changes + implications" before deciding to go a different way. But for any of you interested, see below for the ideas I was trying to convey. 👇
✍️ New essay published: Playing the headcount accordion. This essay is for those product leaders who are trying to navigate the tension of their organizations wanting to run leaner and faster (the cliche: "do more with less") while so many incentives & constraints are pushing us
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This has been my experience thus far. #2 in particular is something worth exploring more. Even though I am technical enough to not be lost in vibe-coding dread, I have leaned into "explain what you're doing / what's going on" as part of this process, and it has helped me build.
@GergelyOrosz I feel like there are two flawed mental models at play:.1. That vibe-coding is a replacement for engineering.2. That vibe-coding precludes you from learning how to engineer. I think #1 is oft-discussed, but I feel #2 is the real opportunity. Thought exercise: what if vibe-coding.
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RT @GergelyOrosz: The evolution of "vibe coding production software as a non-dev" the last few months. Success stories do exist. ones I s….
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@petergyang i'm not convinced the affection for 4o and distaste for 5 is only about sycophancy and addiction, there are clear attributes of the models textual ux that give 5 a distinct "personality" from 4o. problem is people don't have the right words to be precise about the difference,.
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One more note: .r/ProductManagement is a great place for test cases for how well this semantic search works. There are so many challenging situations PMs are working through!.
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