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Running the place: an executive's calendar, dissent, severance, and what a manager is actually for.
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Scott Alexander quoted
Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten
Their wordsBut of course humans will grant AI access to infrastructure and factories. I assume many factory managers are already using GPT or Claude on their computers to do basic tasks (like write up the shift schedule, or make inventory spreadsheets, or compose emails to the boss). Once AI can do harder work, like automate the factory itself, they’ll do that too.
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M.G. Siegler quoted
Technology writer of Spyglass
Their wordsThe body may well reject such organs! But yeah, you sort of have to try if you truly believe AI is going to fundamentally alter the way business is done.
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Danny Martinez quoted
Co-founder and CEO of Decimals
Their wordsThe way I kind of simplified my mind is like do you want a designer that knows how to use claw code because there's plenty of those or you want somebody who trained as an engineer, has background as an engineer that can design for themselves. Those are two very different profiles, but the same nomenclature gets used to like identify them.
↗Danny Martinez - Thriving in today’s design job marketyoutube.com 1st of 19 in this recording
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Danny Martinez quoted
Their wordsI think the the general theme that comes back is I want someone that is a tinkerer, you know, is using the latest tools, is reimagining what it means to be a designer.
↗Danny Martinez - Thriving in today’s design job marketyoutube.com 2nd of 19 in this recording
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Danny Martinez quoted
Their wordsI think people's biases go towards like hey you know if they've been at fang for like 5 10 years then have they really been at the forefront have they really been pushing have they really been tinkering
↗Danny Martinez - Thriving in today’s design job marketyoutube.com 6th of 19 in this recording
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Danny Martinez quoted
Their wordsif you feel like your portfolio can be oneshotted or that it looks very familiar to someone else's portfolio that's going to put hiring managers off.
↗Danny Martinez - Thriving in today’s design job marketyoutube.com 12th of 19 in this recording
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Danny Martinez quoted
Their wordsyou kind of need to snap out of that and you need to realize that you're competing for this person. If they're good, they're probably going to have their pick of offers.
↗Danny Martinez - Thriving in today’s design job marketyoutube.com 14th of 19 in this recording
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Writes The Pragmatic Engineer
Our readingCJ Desai's departure is bad news for MongoDB
Their wordsBy leaving, he gave up most of the equity…. V bad news for MongoDB
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Molly Graham quoted
Co-founder of Glue Club and The Guild
Our readingLeading right now requires talking about and normalizing the overwhelm people are feeling.
Their wordsThere's a lot of overwhelm that all, you know, manifests. Some of it manifests in burnout, but it's like there is just a lot going on for people right now. And you really can't lead right now without talking about that um and without normalizing that.
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 1st of 20 in this recording
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Molly Graham quoted
Their wordsthey are about badly run companies slapping an AI label and getting some share points from that versus saying, "Whoops, we made we hired too many people."
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 6th of 20 in this recording
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Molly Graham quoted
Their wordsyou hear all these stories about like companies like counting tokens and having token leaderboards and it's like it brings me back to the days when people were like counting cars in a parking lot and Slack bubbles and lines of code, right? Which we all know is a really bad way to manage people.
↗Molly Graham: The grief, burnout, and opportunity hiding inside the AI transitionyoutube.com 11th of 20 in this recording
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Ben Carlson quoted
Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz…
Their wordsYou could make the case that this is the hardest environment of all-time for active managers.
↗Most Stocks Are Losersawealthofcommonsense.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Geoff Teehan quoted
Chief Design Officer at Lightspark
Their wordsI fear for like the managers who are not deep in IC work or like capable of good IC work because I think that there's not going to be a lot of middle management. I think it's going to be managers who build just like IC's
↗Geoff Teehan - Navigating change as a designeryoutube.com 15th of 15 in this recording
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Jon Seager quoted
Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical
Their wordsPerformance management is often associated with something going wrong, but it should be a continuous process, conducted in regular one-to-one meetings where short-, medium- and long-term goals are set and assessed, feedback is given (both ways!) and issues are addressed proactively.
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Ann Handley quoted
Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing
Their wordsThe lesson isn't "go slow." It's "know where slowing down delivers outsized results." When speed becomes cheap, judgment carries a premium.
↗New Data Just Dropped! Latest Blogging Researchannhandley.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Peter Sellis quoted
Former head of product at Discord
Our readingCollaboration 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
↗90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellisyoutube.com 1st of 18 in this recording
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Peter Sellis quoted
Their wordsI think it's like essential to be able to create an organization that can adopt that type of talent.
↗90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellisyoutube.com 2nd of 18 in this recording
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Peter Sellis quoted
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.
↗90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellisyoutube.com 3rd of 18 in this recording
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Peter Sellis quoted
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.
↗90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellisyoutube.com 5th of 18 in this recording
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Peter Sellis quoted
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.
↗90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellisyoutube.com 13th of 18 in this recording
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Peter Sellis quoted
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.
↗90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellisyoutube.com 17th of 18 in this recording
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M.G. Siegler quoted
Their wordsone of the things that made Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs, was how in command he was of the facts - yes, even those sprinkled with reality distortion dust! - on stage.
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Horace Dediu quoted
Analyst of the business of technology
Their wordsIt's a trap to think that more profitability is always the right answer.
↗Refurbishing the Innovator’s Dilemmaasymco.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Pieter Levels quoted
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone
Their wordsIf you enjoy calls, you're probably a manager not a maker https://t.co/CmUTfFxVgZ https://t.co/ZslI1JXbZW
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Pieter Levels quoted
Our readingMany times, the calls were for the other people to hit quotas in their schedule for their boss.
Their wordsMany times the calls were for those people to hit quotas in their schedule for their boss
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Tobias Lütke quoted
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify
Their wordsyou can't have a company that's led by machines because they have no like no one has recourse they can't go to jail for doing something wrong
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 8th of 26 in this recording
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Tobias Lütke quoted
Their wordsI don't think the executives tend to be short-term focused, but the executives often like what they incentivized to keep their job. Therefore, they need to be able to prove that they're doing a good job at intervals.
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 14th of 26 in this recording
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Tobias Lütke quoted
Their wordsA department sometimes needs a refounding event
↗Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuableyoutube.com 25th of 26 in this recording
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Tobias Lütke quoted
Their wordsThey see what needs to happen but don’t want to be the bad guy. I’m happy to just make the call if I agree with the premise. Saves enormous amounts of meetings and change management etc.
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Tamar Yehoshua quoted
Chief Product and AI Officer at Atlassian
startupsdesignproduct managementhiring
Their wordsAnd the AI builder job is real. There are startups that are not hiring PMs or not hiring designers. They are hiring builders.
↗Roles aren't converging—they're expanding | Tamar Yehoshua (Atlassian CPO) (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)youtube.com 1st of 13 in this recording