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Nikolas Schriefer retweeted
You really know intelligence has been commoditized when CEOs start vibe coding!
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Managers who think meetings lead to clarity also think that the more people you hire the easier it is to meet your goals and deadlines. Reality is the opposite. Hitting goals and deadlines is a result of leaders who spread clarity, conviction snd direction. Without more meetings.
Nikolas Schriefer retweeted
Asynchronous work is built on trust. Too many meetings are a crutch for a lack of alignment, confidence and trust. More meetings means less autonomy and time for people to get the actual work done. Adding more meetings means you’re operating from a place of fear that you’ll fail.
Nikolas Schriefer retweeted
Product Management is not about:
- Asking customers about the requirements.
- Writing detailed specifications.
- Creating prototypes and wireframes.
- Assigning tasks to developers.
- Verifying and accepting the work of others.
- Obsessing over velocity, deadlines, and roadmaps.
- Mastering Scrum or any other framework to perfection.
- Acting like the CEO of the product.
Anyone can do that.
It’s about:
- Understanding customer's problems, needs, and desires.
- Understanding the market and the business in depth.
- Collaborating closely with engineers and designers.
- Identifying opportunities, finding solutions, and tackling the risks together.
- Marrying customer goals and business goals.
- Influencing others to work toward the common goal.
- Being humble (it's ok not to be the smartest person in the room).
- Experimenting to validate assumptions.
- Leading without authority.
- Turning chaos into clarity.
Start with these questions:
- Why are we building this thing?
- Why are we building it now?
- For whom are we building it?
- What's the unique value of our product?
- How is it aligned with the company's vision?
- How is it aligned with the business strategy?
- What does success look like? How can we measure it?
- What are the customer needs/jobs (functional, emotional, social)?
- How will it affect our customers and users?
- How will it create value for the business?
- Can we buy it instead of building it?
- How can we make sure that our customers would love it?
- Will our customers know how to use it?
- Can our business support it (e.g., legal, finances)?
- Is it feasible? Can we build it with the existing technology?
- How can we bring it to the market?
- Do we have the required channels?
- Should we do it at all? Are there any ethical considerations?
- What are the riskiest assumptions? How can we validate them?
- What does the data tell us?
- How can we get maximum validating learning with minimum effort?
- What else can go wrong?
Be curious. Learn and experiment. Question solutions and push back on things handled down.
Remember that product management is about creating a "product customers love, yet also works for our business" (Marty Cagan, Inspired), not about pleasing stakeholders.
After 9 years, I'm still learning daily, and I do not know everything, but I can give you my perspective on any questions you have.
Drop them below.
Nikolas Schriefer retweeted
OpenAI announces leadership transition openai.com/blog/openai-annou…
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We are adding support for plugins to ChatGPT — extensions which integrate it with third-party services or allow it to access up-to-date information. We’re starting small to study real-world use, impact, and safety and alignment challenges: openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plug…
Nikolas Schriefer retweeted
Do you want to write 10x faster?
I just built a small app to help you do exactly that by auto-suggesting the next words you might want to type, leveraging @OpenAI's #GPT3 model.
Try it yourself: ai-cowriter.com
#AI #MachineLearning #DataScience #NLP
Nikolas Schriefer retweeted
It’s that time of the year again—the time for a Google coding interview!
But not just any Google coding interview… No… This time, we’re doing a Google coding interview with an artificial intelligence—ChatGPT!
youtu.be/gOf2SQVMUL0
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Try talking with ChatGPT, our new AI system which is optimized for dialogue. Your feedback will help us improve it. openai.com/blog/chatgpt/
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Strategy aside, the shipping speed is very impressive.
Heaven knows how much cultural and technical debt they’re fighting through to ship such a key feature this quickly.
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What do data anecdotes, inclusion, and marketing growth loops have in common? #ProductCon 2022 is the answer. lnk.to/productcon2022TW
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🚨🚨 BREAKING: 🚨🚨
If you're a Google Sheets user, stop what you're doing and check this out...
...they just dropped 10 new functions on us!!! 🔥🔥🔥
Christmas came early for Sheets nerds 🎅
Let's check them out 👇
Nikolas Schriefer retweeted
👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages/
ALT The background of space is black. Thousands of galaxies appear all across the view. Their shapes and colors vary. Some are various shades of orange, others are white. Most stars appear blue, and are sometimes as large as more distant galaxies that appear next to them. A very bright star is just above and left of center. It has eight bright blue, long diffraction spikes. Between 4 o’clock and 6 o’clock in its spikes are several very bright galaxies. A group of three are in the middle, and two are closer to 4 o’clock. These galaxies are part of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and they are warping the appearances of galaxies seen around them. Long orange arcs appear at left and right toward the center.
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If a prospective customer reached out to you, something prompted them to do it.
If you initiated the contact and they responded to it, there's a story there as well.
Uncover it.
The most powerful sales pitch is the one you don't have to make...
Because it already happened.
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We're #hiring for new remote-flexible roles in Copenhagen, Lisbon, and Los Angeles!
Come join our friendly team of music lovers, and be a part of our mission to empower entertainment discovery everywhere 🎵🚀
Discover all of our current job openings at lnk.to/careers
Nikolas Schriefer retweeted
To all early stage founders, let me save you two years of flailing. Whatever idea you have, just pivot to building infrastructure for that idea instead. 😆
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I don't know who did this...but It made my day 😂 AWS moving workloads out of Exadata #HappyWednesday #CloudHumor
