Peter Sellis

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there are very few people that have this type of like blank sheet creativity to think about the future totally unencumbered from the present.

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I think almost every consumer product maybe it's also a controversial take like needs to be optimizing for daily active use

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people who are making consistently good decisions I just want to load them up with more decisions till I start to see them make bad ones.

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And I think the mechanism by which how influenced I should be should essentially be how much trust I'm trading off.

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one way you can kind of like get at somebody's taste is uh when you're interviewing them is just ask them about some of the things they built that they never shipped.

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exercising that kind of muscle of like saying no uh of restraint is probably one of the easiest like one of the few like muscles of taste you can exercise. If if a museum has all of their collection on the walls, then the curator hasn't done anything.

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Actually the most underrated aspect like of of systems thinking is is is having a mathematical background to be able to describe the the system in mathematical terms.

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And like there aren't really great ad products for messaging apps right now.

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The key thing to think about is like those are just harder to measure and it's harder to build performance products around things that are hard to measure.

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ads are truly the magical kind of like product market fit of consumer monetization on the internet.

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I really don't hear great engineers complain about product managers that much because great engineers a they know how to bend product managers to their will. They get the the the use out of them that they want and b they just like don't put up with bad ones.

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mathematically uh it's kind of like set up to be this profession where the the median product manager is actually probably pretty bad.

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That's kind of how I think of a lot of the spikier product managers that I've worked with, which is like, man, sometimes they whiff on an album, but if I still believe in them as an artist, like I'll stick with them.

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I think it's like essential to be able to create an organization that can adopt that type of talent.

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collaboration comes with incredible coordination costs. And coordination costs essentially assure that you're moving as slow as the slowest node