Gaia Soykok

When to hire a product manager? Someone has to play the role of product manager. Can be the founder. If not adequate and solid, engineering is too expensive to waste and without a solid product presence, you waste money.

The lack a native web3 identity makes today’s DeFi ecosystem unable to supportactivities ubiquitous in the real economy, such as undercollateralized lending or simple contracts, like anapartment lease

Sawyer Effect as “practices that can either turn play into work or work into play,” after Tom Sawyer, who tricked his friends into painting a fence for him by convincing them it was fun

doing 'three things well:1.Discover the asymmetries (…) and discern the potential between them.2.Turn asymmetries into capabilities by strategically embedding them within an organizational design configuration that exploits them and sustains their development.3.Match asymmetry-derived capabilities to market opportunities’ (Miller 2003), p. 965

Rather than viewing conflict as a threat, the transformative view sees conflict as a valuable opportunity to grow and increases our understanding of ourselves and others. Conflict helps us stop, assess and take notice.

Where should PM roles sit? Could be a GM or reporting CPO to CEO structure. Once you are 4 or 5 PM, there has to be a product lead to set the culture.

Specialism was born to handle the vast knowledge by reducing the areas one has to master. The word scientist was coined to separate the man of letters and investigators of nature. in french "specialite" comes into use. Ironallicay it is polymath August Comte coins the abstract noun specialisation. new words for new trends

Julie had a journey through digital art - >collection - websites - computer engineering - >startups product on FB - design as a profession - > learn the craft - > Manage team of designers - Scale and Diversity (VP of design) - > startup founder.