Elise Liu

My top advice after 10+ yrs in product: prepare to fail 1/ In how you design product, 2/ In how you think abt strategy, 3/ In how you incentivize your team, 4/ In how you design your life. Success feels like a lot of things going slightly wrong along the way. Stay resilient.

Why your CEO is out of touch (and how you can help and/or survive)

"1. A slice in space that marks our time is a desire path. 2. The aimless feet driving grass back to ground: desire path. 3. You can tell college dorms with the most inter-residential romances by their desire path..."

A few thoughts on the edges of reason: 1/ Why it is impossible to quantify pain, joy, and the value of human life; 2/ The phenomenon of platitudes - advice that seems useless til you follow it; 3/ How pataphysical arguments that break their frames resolve cynical discordances

I read some stats on how many CEOs are narcissists and the article about the Sheriff in Mississippi, felt cynical, and wrote some disjointed thoughts on catch-22s, zen koans, and public ethics. It might be too spicy to summarize. #ship30for30

I've been thinking on work, and how to balance hedonic (present-focused) and eudaemonic (future-focused) pleasure. AFAICT, both are traps, there is no solution, and the problem does not reduce to a single answer on how to live. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Feel free to prove me wrong!

@casey_dai this is super interesting. i'd love to learn more about what makes up success at the first and last 10%

My view on delegation completely changed after learning this one mental model.

@harsh_bud I love these habits. I want them to be a twitter thread so I can engage with specific ones. Wandering in nature is absolutely the most grounding thing.

Why you shouldn't #grind in your work: 1/ Attachment to hard work = ignoring useful shortcuts 2/ Discomfort is a sign of redirection. Success feels easy 3/ Grinding makes you kind of suck #productmanagement #product #hustle

@casey_dai I'm very interested in the "meta-skills" point. What metaskills and why?

One mentality I wish I paid more attention to when I started my career

@VirginiaALee @dairyidfa @NatlToday such cool facts i didn't know i needed to know. 😂what do you forecast about nondairy ice cream trends? as a lactose intolerant i've been delighted to see so many of them pop up the last few years

Happy National Ice Cream Day! Did you know that the average American eats 4 gallons (15 liters) of ice cream each year? #NationalIceCreamDay @dairyidfa @NatlToday

@JasonMHicks i like the terms "the reactionary temptation" and "the totalitarian temptation" - did you come up with them? would be curious to hear more on those ideas

@courageouslyaj love the concept of advice emphasizing "relevant context" for people instead of telling them an exact number. walking ppl through your work = teaching them how to think

Have you ever got terrible advice? It's probably because of Contextual Blindness. Here's how I discovered what Contextual Blindness is and how it can impact how we show up to marketing if we're not aware 👇

@klopmp This is great - i've been meaning to tinker with chatbots. Which no-code tools do you suggest?

3 Foolproof Tips to Train No-Code AI Chatbots with Private Knowledge Base #chatbot #generativeai #chatbase

@klopmp thank you Kenneth! I love the idea of a "safe floor" - beautiful term

@eliseliu This post is liberating. It helps establish a safe floor. Nothing breaks when (not if) you hit it. "Constant Redirection" is my takeaway. Thank you @eliseliu!

My top advice after 10+ yrs in product: prepare to fail 1/ In how you design product, 2/ In how you think abt strategy, 3/ In how you incentivize your team, 4/ In how you design your life. Success feels like a lot of things going slightly wrong along the way. Stay resilient.

@courageouslyaj thank you. i think i had a very typical POV coming out of of school - that I should focus on figuring out "the right thing to do" and then do it --that there was "a right answer." it's taken time to unlearn that.

@eliseliu So much great advice here! Especially around supporting a risk-taking culture (and getting out if it isn't). I'd love to hear more about your early days and maybe when your perspective on failure shifted.

@lkostova thank you!

@eliseliu Love the insights - you can break these out in 4-5 separate posts, there's lots of gold in there to unpack :)

@JasonMHicks thanks for the feedback Jason! fascinating to see emojis become modern pictographic language even in business writing