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2. Establish a culture of reflection3. Create more accountability

Provides questions you can ask during a job search to sniff out strong product orgs.

Your team dynamic is something you can always affect, even if you have no meaningful influence over the major strategic decisions of an organization.

I do want to hit mainstream, and I will, but I think I'm more excited about what we’re doing here because it's new soil. We're really planting the seeds of a garden that's gonna prosper.

Cross-functional teams: people can work on different parts of a system in parallel.

Side benefit of this method: by forcing multiple iterations on a PR/FAQ, you implicitly gain the approval of everyone who reviews it, demands iterations on it, and subsequently approves it. This then means that when a product passes the PR/FAQ process but subsequently fails in the market, people are more likely to take collective responsibility.

There is just the feeling that it should all be exceptional. We should push for an extreme quality bar on all of the fronts.

Features work as a management control because they manifest in the final product, and their relationship to programmer-hours is about as close to linear as you’re going to get.

Good product managers think about the story they want written by the press. Bad product managers think about covering every feature and being really technically accurate with the press.