Robby Stein's mental models

Their wordsAnd there's two things that I think drive this. One is does the product work perfectly? And is there any user pain, basically, in that experience? And the second is how does it make me feel?

Their wordsThe thought is that we don't use products, we hire them to do things for us, and we have to know what those things are.

Their wordsby having a clear analytical view of the exact problems that are in your product space, ranking them in priority and understanding them deeply, and then actually fixing them and then asking it recursively again and really looping through, you basically are doing your own training process, kind of like an epoch of model training a little bit.

Their wordsAnd I think in some cases that's still true, but really if in the world of today, almost anything you can think of can get built, it's more clear to me than ever that the actual true value of PM is actually around judging. It's around taste.