Today is my last day as a PM on WhatsApp Payments 💸 Thank you to Stephane Kasriel and David Marcus for creating this incredible team! Wanted to share some of my learnings from building product in the fintech & payments space: 🧵 (1/12)

there isn't a lot of transparency or accountability in the vax rollout at federal/state/local level, but the US does have enough vax doses to effectively end the pandemic in 45-60 days. here's why, key metrics to observe, and a reminder on how we can do it...

"The trajectory of your life bends in the direction of your habits." –James Clear

On attention to detail: People who excel tend to obsess over the details. People who struggle also tend to obsess over the details. The difference is what details they focus on. Minutiae vs polish. Most things don’t matter—but when it does, you want to get the details right.

How Reddit's WallStreetBets Pushed GameStop (GME) Shares to the Moon - Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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𝟳𝟬-𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥 𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗠𝗔 𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗔𝗨𝗟𝗧𝗘𝗗 & 𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗕𝗘𝗗: Not again! ⠀ A young woman told me her grandma was robbed while coming home from the bank February 3rd around 11am. 6th Avenue and International Boulevard in Oakland.

1/2 #Scapegoating #Asian #immigrants has a long #history in #America. These posters fr campaign for the #ChineseExclusionAct 1882 include blaming #Chinatowns for #typhoid #smallpox. Nearly a 100 #Chinesecommunities across the #West were burned, looted, forced to move #stophate

Congratulations to NASA on the successful landing of the SUV-Sized Perseverance Rover on planet Mars. Among other things, it carries a drone helicopter — an engineering test of flight, maneuvering, & navigation in the rarified Martian atmosphere.

Attacks against Asian-Americans in New York City have soared since the pandemic began, terrifying many and stoking fears of targeted violence. The xenophobia is also compounded by the economic fallout of the pandemic and fears of the coronavirus. nyti.ms/37Rf5xy

The faster we vaccinate, the quicker we prevent the virus from mutating to a version that existing vaccines DON’T treat. So stop virtue signaling with these dumb vaccination criteria and start mass vaccination programs. NOW!!

"𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗣𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠": that’s how District Attorney Chesa Boudin described to the The New York Times the man police say killed 84-year old Vicha Ratanapakdee. His family is outraged and believes that is “no excuse” for murdering someone. (1/3)

The antidote to a bad day is a good workout.

Moving your team from slides to long form writing is not just a process change. It is first and foremost a culture change. A writing culture values comprehension over aesthetics, nuance over certainty, clarity over charisma, deliberation over impulse, and rigor over hierarchy.

On a team, the use of the word “product” as a synonym for “product management” or “product managers” correlates highly with trouble. Example: When an engineer deflects a UX-related question with “That’s a product question”, implying “Don't ask me. That is a question for the PM”.

When I hear complaints from an Eng Mgr that a senior product engineer has to just sit idle for a few days while waiting on a spec from the PM, I am interested in hearing what’s blocking the PM, but I am a lot more interested in diagnosing the team culture that led to the idleness

Introducing the Sequoia Capital Gen AI Market Map!🌎 We’ve decided to map out this emerging frontier, thanks to all the contributions and feedback we’ve received. This space is moving quickly – this map is a living document, so keep the suggestions coming! Who else should we include?

Navigating "corporate speak" isn't easy. Here's a helpful guide I put together: "Let me check with my team" = No "Possibly" = No "On my roadmap" = Not happening "This will be done in Q4" = This will be done in Q2 next year "Disagree and commit" = I hate you "Per my last