Adam Fishman
Growth advisor who built growth and product teams at Lyft, Patreon and Imperfect Foods, and leads product at Mozilla; writes The FishmanAF Newsletter.
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A software factory is necessary for AI transformation but will not create adoption by itself.
Their wordsA software factory is necessary, but it won’t create adoption by itself. Cultural momentum comes from three moves: setting the expectation, defining fluency, and removing friction.
↗AI Transformation Is More Than You Thinkfishmanafnewsletter.com
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Early favorability in a growth channel is not proof that the larger system works and scales.
Their wordsThere was nothing wrong with testing out FB ads. You need to test and exploit early. The mistake was treating early favorability as proof that the larger system was working and scalable. It wouldn’t be for a long time.
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Managers withhold feedback because it is socially expensive and they are not trained to give it.
Their wordsManagers don’t forget to give feedback. They don’t give it because feedback is socially expensive and most managers aren’t trained to deliver it well. They’re not trained at all, in fact. It makes them uncomfortable.
↗How To Build A Better Feedback System For Professional Developmentfishmanafnewsletter.com
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Their wordsThe purpose of a leveling guide isn’t to capture everything that matters. It’s to create shared expectations that improve decisions and continuously raise the bar at every subsequent level.
↗Build A One Page Product Leveling Guidefishmanafnewsletter.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsA useful guide shows how a PM creates better outcomes with increasing scope, ambiguity, judgment, and influence. It distinguishes a great moment (“even a broken clock is right twice a day”) from a sustained track record. And it makes clear that seniority is a different kind of contribution; not merely more work.
↗Build A One Page Product Leveling Guidefishmanafnewsletter.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThe thing worth measuring is judgment. The thing that is easy to measure is usage. Because we often follow the path of least resistance usage becomes what everyone reaches for. It tells you almost nothing.
↗Grading AI Fluencyfishmanafnewsletter.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThe first: usage is a vanity metric. Sort of. It is close to useless as a scoreboard. I can generate a hundred pages of confident, wrong, unread garbage faster than you can say “let’s hop on a quick call,” and on a usage dashboard I will look like a genius. Volume is the easiest thing to measure and the easiest thing to fake.
↗Grading AI Fluencyfishmanafnewsletter.com 2nd of 2 in this piece