18 korrents from this recording
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Collaboration carries coordination costs that leave a team moving as slow as its slowest node.
Their wordscollaboration comes with incredible coordination costs. And coordination costs essentially assure that you're moving as slow as the slowest node
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Their wordsI think it's like essential to be able to create an organization that can adopt that type of talent.
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Their wordsThat's kind of how I think of a lot of the spikier product managers that I've worked with, which is like, man, sometimes they whiff on an album, but if I still believe in them as an artist, like I'll stick with them.
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Our reading
The way the product management profession is set up, its median practitioner is probably pretty bad.
Their wordsmathematically uh it's kind of like set up to be this profession where the the median product manager is actually probably pretty bad.
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Their wordsI really don't hear great engineers complain about product managers that much because great engineers a they know how to bend product managers to their will. They get the the the use out of them that they want and b they just like don't put up with bad ones.
0:21:41 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsads are truly the magical kind of like product market fit of consumer monetization on the internet.
0:22:49 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
It is harder to build performance advertising products around audiences that are hard to measure.
Their wordsThe key thing to think about is like those are just harder to measure and it's harder to build performance products around things that are hard to measure.
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Their wordsAnd like there aren't really great ad products for messaging apps right now.
0:30:23 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsActually the most underrated aspect like of of systems thinking is is is having a mathematical background to be able to describe the the system in mathematical terms.
0:36:06 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
One way to gauge a candidate's taste is to ask about the things they built and never shipped.
Their wordsone way you can kind of like get at somebody's taste is uh when you're interviewing them is just ask them about some of the things they built that they never shipped.
0:36:27 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsexercising that kind of muscle of like saying no uh of restraint is probably one of the easiest like one of the few like muscles of taste you can exercise. If if a museum has all of their collection on the walls, then the curator hasn't done anything.
0:43:20 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsAnd I think the mechanism by which how influenced I should be should essentially be how much trust I'm trading off.
0:48:56 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordspeople who are making consistently good decisions I just want to load them up with more decisions till I start to see them make bad ones.
0:51:42 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI think almost every consumer product maybe it's also a controversial take like needs to be optimizing for daily active use
1:00:39 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
Very few people have the blank-sheet creativity to imagine the future unencumbered by the present.
Their wordsthere are very few people that have this type of like blank sheet creativity to think about the future totally unencumbered from the present.
1:11:53 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsrevenue tomorrow for advertising is essentially causally related to the ROI you drive for advertisers today.
1:15:38 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsif it's just metrics, it's kind of meaningless to people. If it's just a phrase, it doesn't get actioned day-to-day by data scientists, product managers, and engineers.
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Their wordsI think to be a really good really good PM you kind of have to be like really confident and that borders on arrogance a lot of the time.