Catherine Bassett

The best outcomes are when you have a vision & can laser focus on only things that will get you there fastest. Life or product management.

BREAKING: Thousands in NYC are marching and protesting of Donald Trump’s election to 47th President of the United States of America

What will be interesting to watch is how quickly Trump throws RFK under the bus - let’s say he followed through with getting all the junk out of the foods in America - ( which would be great) that EUROPE bans - will be a great idea until Monsanto and mega corps find out -

Why not? It’s the theatre of the absurd already.

His ego and general arrogance has created a hot gas ball so large it changes his body profile.

I can’t believe I woke up this am to @netanyahu comparing football Hooligan violence started by Maccabi fans to #Kristallnacht Do I need to revisit what happened 86 years ago? He really is the worst thing for the Jewish diaspora.

"Oh anyone can do Product Management" open.substack.com/pub/cmbassett/…

@mingle_malinger @fl360aero And you should be banned for life for doing so. Choices.

@fl360aero Sounds like the only tense person is the SUPER annoying flight attendant. Sorry, I’m not leaving my bags for American Airlines to lose or destroy over a tiny little battery fire. If I have a $3,000 MacBook Pro or something in my seat, IM TAKING IT. No ones life was in danger.

Latest video footage shows the tensed moments after a laptop battery caught fire inside the American Airlines flight at SFO. Flight attendants and the pilot can be heard asking passengers to leave their bags and get off the plane. At least three people were injured during the evacuation. 🎥 Courtesy : Jan Jankai and ABC7 News #emergency #evacuation #airlines

@barkmeta I don't know a rich and successful person who doesn't.🤷🏻‍♀️

I’ve never met a rich & successful person who smokes weed. Not even once.

The Princess of Wales is missing and the spare Prince is in exile and the King is treating his cancer with herbs. If this were the 1300s France would be looking to invade.

via @NYTimes Is this even news anymore? nytimes.com/live/2024/02/1…

Joe Biden has presided over perhaps the most energetic American government in nearly half a century. There is plenty to debate about its merits. But there is no denying that many of his policies are already having an impact econ.st/47VonoE 👇

What level of enlightenment means no more meetings or PowerPoint?

@tmrohan Ugh. I had that and I wish I hadn’t. Hustle culture sucks.

I was lucky enough to work at Google ‘05-10. We were in the office, 9a-8p, Mon-Thurs; Friday 9a-5p. Saturday people took off (kinda). Back online Sunday most of the day. I think you miss something profound if you don’t have this work environment early in your career.

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@nbcsnl @MickJagger @ladygaga Look at Pedro realizing where he is 😂

Thank you, Bad Bunny, Pedro Pascal, @MickJagger, and @ladygaga! Goodnight!

I wasn’t born rich and became the youngest woman in American history to be elected to Congress. Then I investigated Cohen, authored the largest FEMA funeral assistance program in history and led creation of a US Climate Corps to create tens of thousands of new jobs. Stay mad 💁🏽‍♀️

@theCGSshow Exact same energy 😂

#RHOSLC No one: Lisa Barlow to strangers in the Palm Springs Airport Bathroom:

.@TomBrady halftime ceremony from @GilletteStadium. #PHIvsNE on @NFLonCBS

@AravSrinivas You talk to your customers and then do the work to deliver the right things. If you’re just building a laundry list of requests you’re not doing your job.

This actually happened to Evernote. They took the advice of “keep talking to your customers and ship whatever they want” as the only guiding principle for product development. And what ended up happening was paying users liked it, but the product become unintuitive and feature overload for the new user. To the extent that they had to rebuild a version for the new user. Users don’t always know if they really want something. It’s your job to take the extra step to think on their behalf: whether they really need this. Or can what they ask be done through something much simpler. Or can you solve multiple problems of different users with one new redesign rather than a bunch of changes. The right principle is: “Keep talking and listening to your users, spend the additional time thinking on their behalf what they actually want, and ship that”.