Chris Belmore

@jair1970 massive xSeats overperformance

"in xG terms Labour and the Liberal Democrats went on a hot finishing streak..."

@evanlapointe Twitter saying I can't DM you as I'm not premium. Maybe if you follow me?

@chrisbelmore Can you please DM me a good email address for you?

We are making a video about personality and I want to do something really special with it. Here's the plan and how you are involved: The range of personality can be a hard thing to understand. So I want to put short clips of people with totally different personalities together, featuring real people describing how their mind works. If you have already worked with our team at CORE or you are willing to spend 5-10 minutes on a Zoom answering a few questions about how your mind works, hit reply here or shoot me a direct message. If you know anyone who would be really cool for us to feature (people who really think in special ways), @ them in a reply.

@WJacky101 gg 👋 It's been a good run 😭

@shreyas Can individuals have *objectively* great taste? Or is taste something akin to 'having a clear opinion' on intangible things such as product design or brand?

@chrisbelmore Love, joy, happiness.

An executive’s insistence on metrics for intangible but important issues (such as product design and brand) is really just a substitute for a lack of personal taste or a lack of taste in the company’s middle managers.

@shreyas Are there other difficult-to-clarify talents that people refuse to learn? What is taste analogous to, in that regard?

Many have tried to clarify, but some people still refuse to learn (it isn't their fault - they are just wired differently and differently talented than those who have great taste).

@shreyas It's undefineable? Uncodifiable?

@chrisbelmore Therein lies the alpha.

@GaryLineker @RestIsFootball Which English player from each of your eras was most underappreciated by England managers?

A little request for questions for our next @RestIsFootball Q&A. We’ll endeavour to answer as many as possible. Just reply to this with your question. Cheers 🙌🏻

@Matrym_gg You and Toby are my favourite pair, great chemistry. And I think you're doing yourselves a disservice, you add tons of context around team/player history and performance, what's been happening in scrims, etc. Keep on keeping on!

Some quick thoughts on casting PUBG and why I do what I do. I don't usually talk about the "how" of my job so thought I would give it a try. Also I am only speaking for me here. I use we a few times but by no means speak for all the casters.

@GaryLineker @RestIsFootball Which of each others' squads would you have most liked to have played in? e.g. Shearer up top for Man City 11/12? Or England 1990 WC?

A little request for questions for our @RestIsFootball Q&A please. Just reply to this post. Thank you 🙌🏻

@oilysailor any other PL games where one side has had 8+ different scorers?

@oilysailor any other PL games where one side has had 7+ different scorers?

@leeloowrites Interested!

@johncutlefish Research. Experimentation.

@laura_yarrow @joenatoli Another can simply be that there are a lot of great candidates. It's very competitive.

@joenatoli I think there are other reasons, like: - havent worked in a similar field or industry (missing domain knowledge) - length of experience - missing skills like leadership or management - etc etc… There are quite a few reasons other than “the work is bad”

How do others feel about this? I think there’s more to it than “your work is bad”. I’ve seen incredible design work yet picked up on other red flags (not able to talk about the process or objectives etc) that ended in rejecting the application, so this advice seems 1 dimensional?

@tom_d_kerwin That told them!

Rant where I explain that my preferred way of doing my job is the correct way! Confession where I'm frustrated by companies that don't let me do my job properly! Shots fired at my peers who don't do it correctly! In summary, all the fakers will be caught out sooner or later!

@andybudd Hypothesis backlog!

@chrisbelmore Some of this might be a "feature backlog", and some of this might be a "research backlog". However I'd personally avoid using either framing myself, and instead keep your execs in problem solving mode for longer.

It's a small thing, but I think product teams should have an issue backlog rather than (or at least as well as) a solutions backlog.

@andybudd Makes sense to me to frame as a research backlog. "This is what we're trying to demystify, learn, fix, improve, try, validate..." etc

Much better to have the mindset of "this is what we're currently trying to fix" rather than "this is what we're currently trying to ship". Outcomes over outputs etc.

@PavelASamsonov This is why I struggle with the term 'Product Sense', as if it's some innate understanding of something

Imagine thinking that your designerly taste is so good that you can stop at the first loop.