Susie Conley

Career advise from July Evans: Write a “brag” document. It’s useful in negotiation, in annual review & promo conversations, and when you least expect it. Why: you can’t expect your manager to know everything you’ve done. Plus you need to combat your own human cognitive issues (memory, recency bias, self depreciation, etc). What to do: maintain ... See more

• Status quo should not be underestimated, nor always messed with.

54:00 - It's always a challenge to see further down than 6 months along the road because you don't always know what the platform is working on and what they are going to do. They have their own competitive forces to deal with. So you hope, "Hey I hope my niche isn't too interesting to them, that they want to take it over. But interesting enough tha... See more

32:00 Three ways to get research HCI

21:40 - Science is good at the long game of extending the tip of human knowledge. While brazen startups are good at acting boldly off of naïveté.

55:00 - It’s pretty common to have these two-sided integrations. For example, building on Slack, and also on Google Calendar. You are 2x-ing your risk. Because you have to keep up with changes happening on both platforms. And either platform may steal the idea as well. But those 2-sided integrations can also be a goldmine niche.

About running a community: Having a community is valuable to understand what your user base wants to accomplish. User interviews are a tool, but they can be rather artificial. A community chat or forum is invaluable for educational materials for users. They can find existing article content, or come into the channel to ask a new question. If commun... See more

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