Simon Joliveau Breney
@simonjb
Simon Joliveau Breney
Consistency just feels good to our system centric product/engineering/design brains. But it creates a huge coordination cost and prohibits local experimentation – everything has to be run against a single standard that multiplies in communication complexity as the organization gets larger.
Sam Gerstenzang • Operating well – what I learned at Stripe
When something isn’t getting done, it’s because the person a) doesn’t have the time b) doesn’t have the skill or c) has some sort of psychological block. The third case is surprisingly common. After a few slips with someone I trusted, I’d just ask directly. “I noticed this work isn’t being pushed forward at the rate I expected or at the quality you
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You work in a product trio performing continuous product discovery for .
Your goal is to .
The product trio identified that <market segment, opportunity> wants to when .
Ideate separately from the perspective of an experienced product manager, an experienced product designer, and an experienced software engineer. Come up with 5 product ideas
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But learning how to think with visual information (not just react to it) requires a different way of seeing, one that enables you to pause the instinctual labeling and stereotyping of the visual images you’re processing and see the individual elements in the image
Cliff Guren • Learning How to Un-See — Cliff Guren
This is hard for me. It’s actually easier for me to do more and work more, than to stop and listen to my energy levels and inspiration and create from that place. My brain has been trained quite well under the “putting more in, means you get MORE out of it, so, ERGO! you gotta do more” model.
Catherine Andrews • The New Edge of Soft Discipline
There was a period of time where everything required an experiment and oftentimes the experiment would run for years and nobody will realize that and decide to end the experiment.
Ken Norton • Building Products at Airbnb
To come up with new ideas, you have to have space to be messy, to procrastinate, and to let your mind wander and free-associate. But there needs to be a balance. You eventually need to channel it into something concrete, or you won’t produce anything.
Dasha Nekrasova • Jon Rafman and Dasha Nekrasova on the Horror We Call Life
Unlike social media platforms, LLM producers argue that they are producing content rather than hosting it. They do this in order to avoid copyright claims. As a result, under many legal jurisdictions, the LLM producer might be held more liable for their models’ outputs than social media platforms would be for the content created by their users.
