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@PixelInBits

Builds and scales products #Bitsian #Illini

United States Katılım Ağustos 2023
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@vixsheikh @shreyas has a great callout about skilled PMs understanding opportunity cost, not just the ones we know, but also what we are blind to. Will try to find and plug it here. Leverage fits right into that concept, and over time, it does come more intuitively.
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@vixsheikh Great thread, perhaps deserves an article? :) I resonate, and i'd add that for me an ensuing realization was the explicit permission to not need the illusion of more work through the N/O tasks. Once that self clarity arrived, I was able to manage it better
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Waqas@vixsheikh·
A 🧵 on time management & leverage... Years ago, as a growing PM, I approached time management as an exercise in seeing how much ground I could cover, as efficiently as possible. At the time, I assumed my priorities were either preordained, or revealed to me organically, on a day-to-day, week-to-week basis. When one manages their time this way, you end up trying to find ways to minimize time per task, to context switch as fluidly and elegantly as possible, to groom the backlog and to chip away at the never-ending TODO list. You may even convince yourself that you're being productive.
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Pari@PixelInBits·
@vixsheikh hard agree, honestly i have been lucky for the past year to have people in team who not just are amplifiers but also have helped deepen product impact. When in alignment,m things do feel like play
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Waqas@vixsheikh·
Leaders need amplifiers - not megaphones - to scale their impact. Amplifiers are the people on your team who have the ability to both understand the direction while also deepening, strengthening and multiplying it through others. They ensure the right messages are conveyed and the right decisions are made and the right behaviors are rewarded, especially when you are not in the room (or zoom). Many leaders feel they are missing megaphones - more direct-line messaging and broadcasting of their direction to the team. This is tempting, but inevitably more limited in terms of reach.
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Pari@PixelInBits·
@evanlapointe I agree, and i have a pet peeve when this happens with variations like i am just playing devil's advocate , or people even agree with the basic premise but need to inject or assume details that haven't even been said or implied.
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Evan LaPointe
Evan LaPointe@evanlapointe·
One simple example of this: Replace "I disagree" with "I have a question." Here's the fact we often love to deny: one of the things the brain is best at is determining whether other people are friends or enemies. I disagree is actually one of the worst things you can say to another brain. First, it signals "I am an enemy. My goal is to defeat you." Want to take a wild guess at how their brain will react? It'll just return the favor: "No, I will beat you instead." Second, it contains zero substantive information. It's just a declaration. Now, you have two people whose subconscious goal is to defeat the other. And if you've ever watched two people in an exchange after "I disagree" gets said, it's pretty obvious that the goal isn't to get to the best answer...it's to win. When you signal to another brain that we're in this together, instead, the foundational goal shifts in their mind. You can fight this idea all you want, but this is raw neuroscience. It is hard fact. If you disagree with me on this one, I have a question for you.
Evan LaPointe@evanlapointe

If you want to get better results with human beings, the best way is to learn a little bit about how the human brain works. The brain *does not work the way it should work.* It works the way it *does* work. Most people really fight that. Like, a lot. "They shouldn't be bothered by this." "They should speak up." "They should have remembered this." These "should" phrases are our way of denying how brains actually work. They are complaints, not strategies, which is why they never actually work. I'll teach you everything you could ever want to know about how the brain works and what it means for winning with human beings. Just ask.

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Pari@PixelInBits·
@vixsheikh How do you think about the builder verifier gap. Product people don't just build but verify, in fact a lot of product work is latter that leads to iteration Devs sort of did this with QA and code reviews in their workflows. Does that flow naturally build when devs start this?
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@vixsheikh This lands. I have seen engineers working with me work well with product reasoning. I have really cherished working with engineers who are product-minded. There is a builder profile of the roles merging in near future for these roles imo
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Waqas@vixsheikh·
I share this belief, that more designers and engineers can be strong PMs if they wanted to and if they honed the higher-order product thinking skill that Nan is talking about below. One of the more revealing things for me in recent years has been seeing the degree to which my writing - ostentatiously aimed at PMs - tends to strike nerves with folks in non-PM functions (design, research, content, data science, engineering). If you decompose the PM job and skillset to its fundamentals, you'll find more people gravitate to it naturally. It's also surprised me to see how many non-PMs carry a "PM ick" perception with them, often driven by bad experiences working with PMs who aren't operating with strong fundamentals.
Nan Yu@thenanyu

Many designers and eng. do well when you ask them to think through product questions in abstract. But you have to take away the IDE/figma or they tend to dive right into coding/designing exactly what was asked for. More designers should become PMs. They’d be good at it.

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Aaron Levie
Aaron Levie@levie·
Huge misunderstanding by everyone why companies buy software. Companies don’t want every employee doing every workflow from scratch on their own for every use case. At some point what you’re outsourcing is the ability to not have to think about the business process, and instead let the software provider think about it. Agents don’t change that, and probably if anything exhibit that dynamic even more.
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Nan Yu@thenanyu·
If you're a PM or on sales or support, how many times have you needed to bother an engineer to find out exactly how the app works? I wanted to know exactly what the default setting was for a personal configuration for all of our users. You never need to ask an engineer again for this kind of thing, because Linear Agent can just read the code and tell you.
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amul.exe@amuldotexe·
If ever my writing has been of help to you, I'd be grateful if you could forward this note to someone who might be able to use my skills: --- I am Amul, a career PM who is trying to pivot to a pure dev role by making OSS contributions in Rust. I recently merged my first PR in Apache Iggy ( github.com/apache/iggy/pu… ) Please find attached my CV for your reference There's a tool I built that might interest you: github.com/that-in-rust/p…  Parseltongue is my attempt at building a LSP for LLMs ( not humans ) It parses all of the code to build a Interface Signature Graph of the codebase, thus compressing the code to a higher abstraction similar to LLD. The reason this is different from ASTs is that only public interfaces are considered. And you can query this dependency graph using local http API queries like forward calls, reverse calls, blast radius etc. , thus achieving faster search / context exploration with fewer tokens because you now have a map of the codebase with forward calls, reverse calls etc. helping the LLMs reason through the LLD much better If this piques your interest, please feel free to DM me Regards, Amul ----
amul.exe@amuldotexe

It's been 4 weeks since I started my Rust OSS sabbatical: got my first PR merged in a large Apache project; spent time learning how to grok large Rust codebases & now I have started looking for developer gigs in the dev ecosystem knowing that getting hired might come with a couple of months lag of its own; if you know someone hiring for Rust or dev tools, please tag / RT for good karma emphasis: looking for dev roles only, happy to do assignments to prove my craft, open to short term contracts

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Pari@PixelInBits·
@amuldotexe I tried semantic search within my Claude code setup for its own search and it did work better, still a hit and miss at times though. And Claude code has been running out of tokens very fast this past week
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amul.exe@amuldotexe·
I am still thinking about Parseltongue because I want to use it to read code WITHOUT hallucination of LLMs
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Dr. Julie Gurner
Dr. Julie Gurner@drgurner·
The best thing you can do in life, is not squander it. Do everything you want to do. Solve the riddles of getting where you want to be, Take risks, take the chance, and grab life by the throat. You have one shot. Go get everything you want.
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@evanlapointe This was an excellent read, very relatable about the humility that is essentially performative
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@vixsheikh @AnthropicAI How are you finding it differ nt from usual voice to text tools like wispr flow or lemon?
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Waqas@vixsheikh·
I’m irrationally excited about /voice. What’s happened to me? Thanks @AnthropicAI
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Evan LaPointe
Evan LaPointe@evanlapointe·
You don't want a mix of thinkers and doers. You want 100% clear thinkers. Once you have that, you want a mix of generalists and specialists.
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Anne T. Griffin@annetgriffin·
My next Forbes piece comes out in the morning. I started interviewing people for it in January but then things got busy. Very excited to finally get this one out there.
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Pari@PixelInBits·
@vixsheikh Similar to yours, access to unprecedented intelligence and even some sort of symbiosis between human and AI via natural language in the terminal. I'm still coming to terms with it but ambition and thinking are the only limit now.
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Waqas@vixsheikh·
@PixelInBits Say more, what was the revelation for you Pari?
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Waqas@vixsheikh·
I find it funny that I can now access unprecedented intelligence with the beauty of natural language - but via using the terminal & my file system far more than I would’ve ever expected in year 2026. It’s funny how these things play out :)
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