This week we had to let go of a lot of incredible people at @VSCO. It’s been a heavy week. Please, please help me find jobs for them as they are great workers and even better people. DM me and let’s talk. 🙏🏼

Browsers haven't had someone put true love & soul into the product in a long time. I am going to do that.

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Great write up by David Nour about Twisted Road and the need for business model innovation. David Nour Twisted Road nourgroup.com/post/time-for-…

I’m sad to say that my father, Jerry Stiller, passed away from natural causes. He was a great dad and grandfather, and the most dedicated husband to Anne for about 62 years. He will be greatly missed. Love you Dad.

Taking a shower helps.

just posted: The Origin of Product Discovery svpg.com/the-origin-of-…

INSPIRED is for product managers and product teams; EMPOWERED is for product leaders - the managers and leaders of product managers, product designers and engineers. The goal is for the leaders to learn how to provide the environment necessary for product teams to do great work.

Wife: can I say something? Me: okay... Wife: our gov is failing us. we need the next president to be a product manager. Me: are you saying I should run? Wife: no, like a good product manager.

PMs reach towards strategy bc it's one of the few tangible signals that you're growing your scope and progressing in your career outside of mgmt. What PMs often miss is that it's not a glamorous "I get to decide what we do now" moment. Instead, it's about choices and bets.

For many products, getting your users to delete the alternative, incumbent product is the final moment you know you've made it with that user. Products often cannot merely reach parity, they must be a lot better. I like to ask: "What would it take for you to delete <y>?"

In 2008 Facebook’s user growth hit a wall at 80M and we were having serious debates about whether any social network could ever reach 100M users. 2 years later we had doubled our user base and not long after that we reached 1B users. Here’s how we did it:

Startups need both the experience of people who’ve done it before and the optimism of people who haven’t.

We're hiring for a Head of Product and a Product Owner at Yonomi! Please share if you think someone could be a fit :) yonomi.co/careers

For tackling hard problems, I think you need to be naive enough to try to solve them, clever enough to solve them expediently, optimistic enough to handle setbacks, open minded enough to hear someone else's solution, and persistent enough to try every path if necessary.

Meet the new boss. Kim Ng is the first female general manager in the major North American men’s professional sports leagues. wsj.com/articles/marli…

We don’t talk enough about how technical debt crippled companies like eBay and Twitter.

Find what is taking all your disk space quickly and delete it: cd ~ brew install ncdu ncdu 'd' to delete. A team member taught me this, this week. You're welcome.

I’ve gotten a lot of bad advice in my career and I see even more of it here on Twitter. Time for a stiff drink and some truth you probably dont want to hear. 👇👇

CEO to the Head of Analytics the night before a board meeting: “Hey u up?”