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2 August

Tom VerrilliKorrents 2 Aug

From one piece This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Deciding on averages is how product teams destroy the small group for whom a barely-used feature is everything.

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there are real downstream impacts to people's businesses that often come from just like a lack of nuance in understanding metrics, particularly averages.

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Hiring product managers by ratio infantilizes engineers and designers who were perfectly capable of deciding for themselves.

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hiring so many PMs infantilizes the engineers and the designers who are perfectly capable of making good decisions, but just never had to because there was always a PM to babysit them.

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A company should hire a product manager only against a specific need, never by default.

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we articulate it that way to kind of force ourselves to remember that you don't hire a PM just for the sake of hiring one, you hire one with a really specific need.

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