Jason Jeong

In the workplace, people usually fall into one of two categories: those who love their discipline vs those who love solving problems. People who love solving problems make a bigger impact. Here's why...

@AustinAirport Will it be busy for evening flights out of AUS tomorrow?

Howdy travelers! 🌸✈️ Austin’s Spring Festival Season and Spring Break are almost here, and we’re expecting a busy terminal throughout March. ⏰ The most important tip we can give you is to arrive 2.5 hours before domestic flights and 3 hours before international flights. (1/4)

I’m realizing the same thing is true for marriage, parenting, business, leadership, and everything.

I thought BJJ was hard. But I looked at it as hard because I lacked the skills, discipline, and experience. Once I changed how I thought about it, I am more focused on the skills, discipline, and experience to get better.

Things aren’t hard. It’s just that you lack the skills, discipline, or experience to handle the hard. Change how you look at what’s hard. Be honest with yourself.

This is a free course on CS Lewis and Christianity by Hillsdale College that’s really well done and would recommend. online.hillsdale.edu/courses/promo/…

@joshm @arcinternet I love Arc. It clicked for me. It’s one of the most intentional products I’ve used. I’m excited for what’s next! I love your courage to take an honest look and difficult decisions. And you’re doing this with a new family and mad props to mom. Keep kicking ass.

Grateful for the outpouring the past few days. I can’t tell you how motivating it is to have people care so much about @arcinternet. The encouragement, the criticism, the confusion. Took it all in <3 As a thank you, I’d like to speak more plainly about what’s happening and why – we owe it to you: 1. Every person who joined or invested in our company did so to build products beloved by hundreds of millions of people. “We want to be to the browser what the iPhone was to the cellphone” has been our rallying cry since Day One. We knew chance of success was low but the ambition made us leap out of bed every morning. 2. Arc is beloved, popular, and growing (4x daily actives YoY). But it’s now clear that what most people love about the product *is also* what will prevent it from reaching hundreds of millions of people in our target demographic (people who spend hours in their browsers each day for their livelihood). Arc is a niche browser, even if we did not intend for it to be so. 3. Luckily, we architected this company – from company name to investors and technical architecture – to support multiple products since Day One. See Arc Search. Our favorite brands have multiple product lines in the same category too (Apple, Nike, Disney). Hence our realization: why keep trying to make Arc something it is not? Nobody who loved Arc wanted Arc Max. Arc members just want it to be more stable, secure, and performant. “Let’s just do that!” 4. With Arc as our beloved but niche browser #1, we asked ourselves a simple question: if we founded the company TODAY (in 2024), with everything that we know, what would the browser of the future look like for hundreds of millions of people? Let’s go build *that* product, alongside Arc. A second browser that is easier to use, more focused, and more powerful. All in order to live up to our founding mission (#1 above). 5. Yet none of this would’ve happened if it weren’t for the timing (market timing is most underrated startup ingredient). Mark my words: the Web is going to dramatically change in 2025 – much more than we all appreciate. Crazy new AI & computer-use models are incoming. I promise you that new browsers will be the story of 2025 (@browsercompany aside). Why? The browser layer is the obvious epicenter of AI & Agents because of its unique context, cookies, & apps. 6. To build a breakthrough consumer product (#1) – like truly breakthrough – you need a catalyzing innovation or technology. AI will be that for the next era of browsers, whether we win or someone else does. So why us (other than Arc is niche)? Our belief is that not only do you need the browser layer to win, but “the hard part” is nailing the interface, the interactions, the storytelling. That’s our bread & butter. That’s the expertise of our team. Now you can see how these puzzle pieces fit together… We built something people love (in Arc) and we intend to stick by it. But we also won’t lose sight of why our team poured so much blood, sweat and tears over the past 4 years into this company: the mission to build a new interface to the internet used by hundreds of millions of people every day. It truly feels like the moment we were waiting for is here and we won’t miss it. Everything we’ve done up until this point was for this type of window, even if we couldn’t have predicted it would play out exactly this way. We’re hopeful that more of you will understand why we’re building this second product soon. I feel confident you will once we can show you more of what we’re dreaming up, and once more of the things we’ve heard and seen in the industry reveal themselves soon. Candidly, we wanted to wait on this announcement but random stuff was leaking and it seemed wrong for you to hear from anyone except us first. We’ve always been at our best when we’re open & honest. We’ll continue to be. Finally, THANK YOU, again, for the love & tough love. We don’t take it for granted. We can’t wait to ship, ship, ship in early 2025!

I’m genuinely confused by the outrage by the Washington Post staffers and the newspaper’s decision to not endorse a presidential candidate. Aren’t they admitting that the media is biased? Honest non-political question: what is journalism? cnn.com/2024/10/25/med…

@bensmithlive Would you say these are in priority order? If not, what are the top 5 in priority order?

The best thing to do when you make good money: Invest in your health. Without it—you are nothing. Here’s the ultimate list of 20 premium purchases for elite health and performance: 1) 50-Parameter Blood Testing

Gotta share the most accurate description of the kind of people who do Jiu-Jitsu as a hobby: “Jiu-Jitsu is for people who are okay with sucking.” #bjj

@SahilBloom I think what’s most impressive is executing their plan to sell their presentation spot. It would have been just as likely for them to end up with $0 no matter how “out of the box” their thinking. Just like successful startups, they executed.

In 2009, Stanford business professor Tina Seelig split her class into groups and issued a challenge: Each group had $5 and 2 hours to make the highest return on the money. At the end, they'd give a short presentation on their strategy. What happened next was fascinating:

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@JustAnotherPM 4. Does the squad know how to operate, build trust, have the skills needed to solve the problem, are in an environment to focus, and has manageable dependencies.

@JasonJeong What are good ways to find the actual cause?

Please help. How should a new product manager tackle this situation: Engineers estimated it to take 4 weeks. But delivered in 12 weeks.

@JustAnotherPM 3. Evaluate the problem the squad was trying to solve. It should be at the appropriate elevation to maximize speed of value delivery. Squad should be focused on delivering slices of overall value vs all the value at once.

@Oxrollntrip @JustAnotherPM Those are would be reflected in one of these four attributes. I’ve provided explanations of each.

@JasonJeong @JustAnotherPM …. What about ? - unexpected bugs in QA - underestimation of the work during refinements - non respect of design requiring adjustments therefore back and forth on frontend - work overload compare to team real capacity (unrealistic timelines) - dependancy with other teams? 🤨

@JustAnotherPM 1. Determine the confidence in the level of value of the solution and compare against the fidelity of the solution. 2. Analyzing ticket data. Throughput should be >2 tickets/team member. Cycle Time: < 2 days. Aging WIP: < 3 days. Flow Efficiency: > 75%

This makes me sick to my stomach. It’s so sad to see what culture has become at these “top” universities. I guess I can go around and call for the extermination of any people group as long as I don’t target an individual.

A reproducible testing process is more valuable than any one idea. Innovate here first. All things equal, a team with more shots at bat will win against a team with an audacious vision.

@VivekGRamaswamy Yes! Only spend the money you actually have.

Starting in 2025, we will apply *zero-base* budgeting to the entire federal government: start from scratch in each department & ask what (if any) spending is required, rather than using last year’s budget as the default starting point. That’s how any good CEO would handle this mess. Our national debt is $33 trillion & we need a true outsider to fix it: the real problem is that *both* parties know no way to budget other than to continue spending on everything without real review of what works.