'But without firsthand experience, it can be extremely difficult to work how you need to. Details matter. The trick is inviting those people into the process and giving them firsthand exposure.'

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'When I chat with other product makers (especially those who started before the graduate→job fast-tracks emerged), I consistently hear the same theme: the joy of solving fun problems with interesting people. It's what unites people.'

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'What you are seeing communicated across the company is not the actual strategy. You are seeing a negotiated narrative, and there's a good chance you're not privy to all the information and context underpinning those implicit and explicit negotiations.'

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new personal finance hack:
each door dash order must be funded by selling something from the garage.

'The ability to accept and value strengths and views we do not personally hold or value. Understanding that we are not omniscient when it comes to recognizing skill and influence, and may unintentionally devalue important aspects of an individual or team'

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Dating site where people can send their GPTs on a date to see if they are compatible.

Today we’re launching Avo Inspector, the solution that makes it possible to find and fix data quality issues in minutes, not months.

It’s happening folks. Join us on Product Hunt to celebrate this major milestone for data practitioners, everywhere.
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'Importantly, these employees resist managerial efforts to 'engage and challenge' them. They don't need to be engaged—they are fairly balanced. And they'd love to be challenged if working within the existing system wasn't so difficult.'

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'To be sustainably successful, the level of collaboration and alignment among managers or leaders in an organization must be equal to or greater than the level of collaboration required among their respective front-line team members.'

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'The proxying gets worse when people who distrust each other ALSO lack details about what's happening (or when the people who work for them lack trust or when things happen that routinely cause flare-ups and disagreements they have to deal with).'

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'I Aspire to Regret How We Used to Work'

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'The very tactics that some companies use to manage dependencies ultimately make the dependencies unmanageable (and negatively impact customer outcomes).'

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'Dependencies In Fast(er) Growing Companies (Part 1)' bit.ly/3tqtoXU John Cutler

After having a wonderful time running the first iteration of my workshop yesterday, I've decided to do another one in January with Maven 🏛 . Thanks to all who attended!

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Acme Layoffs Amid Poor Performance: CEO/Founder Bart Tilda Faults Employees for Not Giving Advanced Warning of Downturn During His Multi-Year Vision Quest, Commits to Coding and Writing Ad Copy Himself.

TBM 240: The Ultimate Guide to Developer Counter-Productivity, by John Cutler buff.ly/3qYQ2FD (via Stefan Wolpers)

Exciting news: I was selected as a top Maven 🏛 course!

When I first built this course to help PM and GTM leaders with scaling their B2B products, I couldn’t have imagined that so many students would trust me to be their guide....

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'How can we make the case for slowing down to speed up when we are already going slow, and when shutting things down and starting over is not an option?'

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