Tara Seshan's mental models

Their wordsthere's a lot of like theorizing that one can do before you ship something but nothing compares to like the actual empirical evidence of seeing users try it, use it, and then iterating from there.

Their wordsall the usual stuff still applies except the importance of testing things empirically and moving faster has only increased.

Their wordsbut a lot of it is also just really tactical like data access like cloud infrastructure and reliability pieces that feel um yeah, they feel much more prosaic than some of the the broader intelligence questions, but matter in some ways just as much for end effectiveness.

Their wordsYour ambitions are no longer limited by like what you're capable of executing yourself, what you're capable of communicating.

Their wordsI have like results where we tried this, we ran an AB, here's like the results. This is why I think we should like go in this direction. That is a way better communication tool than like the the doc itself.