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Nermin Catovic

@iamchataa

General Manager - International Hubs @shopcircleco ➡️ product tech guy

Sarajevo Katılım Nisan 2019
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Nermin Catovic
Nermin Catovic@iamchataa·
Result of nearly three years of effort, growth, and learning at MVP Factory and Ness Digital Engineering, where we’ve been rethinking how teams collaborate to drive real impact. mvpfactory.co/en/insights/ar…
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Lenny Rachitsky
Lenny Rachitsky@lennysan·
I asked Claude Cowork to identify the 10 most important skills for thriving in the age of AI, based on my 320 podcast conversations. Impressed with the results. Part 1: Timeless Skills (become more valuable) 1. Taste and judgment — The bottleneck when AI generates unlimited options. Develop through "exposure hours." — @rauchg 2. Curiosity — The meta-skill that enables all other learning. @mikeyk says it's what he'd prioritize for children in an AI world. 3. Becoming a cross-functional "builder" — "Dissolve role boundaries and call ourselves builders." — @joulee 4. Clear communication and storytelling — As execution is automated, articulation becomes your primary output. 5. Strategic thinking — "The leverage of getting strategy right goes up when execution costs go down." Part 2: AI-native skills (must develop) 1. Writing evals — "AI is almost capped by how good we are at evals." — @kevinweil 2. Prompting and context engineering — "Great prompters are great writers." 3. AI fluency through constant use — You can't understand AI by reading about it. Cancel your meetings and play with every AI product. 4. Understanding systems under the hood — Paradoxically, fundamentals become MORE valuable as AI abstracts them away. 5. Working with AI Agents as teammates — Management skills transfer directly. "Used to be people, but now it's basically AI models." — @joulee
Lenny Rachitsky@lennysan

Testing out the new Claude Cowork. I asked it to go through every Lenny's Podcast episode and pull out the 10 most important themes and lessons for product builders. Then, the 10 most counterintuitive truths. I gave it access to a folder with 320 transcripts. First, it said "This is a substantial task - 320 podcast transcripts to analyze!" 15 minutes later... The 10 most Important themes from Lenny's Podcast 1. Activation Is Everything — Slack's "2,000 messages" moment, Gamma's 30-second magic. Get users to value fast. 2. Storytelling as a Superpower — Compelling narratives align organizations better than documents. 3. Positioning Is Strategy, Not Marketing — April Dunford's 5-step framework that starts with competitive alternatives, not messaging. 4. Product Discovery Before Delivery — Teresa Torres' Opportunity Solution Trees and Marty Cagan's Four Risks framework. Talk to customers weekly, not quarterly. 5. Ruthless Prioritization — Shreyas Doshi's LNO Framework (Leverage/Neutral/Overhead) and focusing on opportunity cost over ROI. 6. AI is Transforming Product Development — Model maximalism, evals as core PM skill, CEOs becoming ICs again. 7. Empowered Teams vs. Feature Factories — Marty Cagan's distinction: give teams problems to solve, not features to build. 8. Build Your Operating System — Claire Hughes Johnson's framework for founding documents, operating cadence, and decision frameworks. 9. Pre-Mortems and Risk Anticipation — Shreyas Doshi's technique to surface failure modes before they happen. 10. Small Teams, Outsized Impact — Jason Fried's 2-person/6-week constraints, Shopify's pair programming culture. The 10 most counterintuitive truths: 1. Fear Gives Bad Advice—Do the Opposite — Whatever you're afraid to do (hard conversation, telling the board bad news) is exactly what you should do. 2. Adding Friction Can INCREASE Conversion — Adding personalization questions to signup improved Amplitude's conversion by 5%. 3. Fewer Features = More Value — The Walkman succeeded because Sony REMOVED recording. QuickBooks wins with half the features at double the price. 4. Adding People Makes You Slower (Absolutely) — Companies produce MORE total output after layoffs. Coordination overhead is the silent killer. 5. What Customers Say They Want Is Meaningless — 93% said they wanted energy-efficient homes. Nobody bought them. "Bitchin' ain't switchin'." 6. Goals Are Not Strategy—They're the Opposite — Richard Rumelt says confusing goals for strategy is the most common strategic error. OKRs are often just wish lists. 7. Don't A/B Test Your Big Bets — Instagram and Airbnb actively reject testing for transformational changes. You can't A/B test your way to greatness. 8. Your Gut IS Data — Intuition is compressed experiential learning that isn't statistically significant yet. Don't discount it. 9. By the Time You're Thinking About Quitting, It's Too Late — Stewart Butterfield killed Glitch while it was still growing 6-7% weekly. That's why he could start Slack. 10. Most PMs Are Overpaid and Unnecessary — Marty Cagan himself says feature teams don't need PMs. Nikita Bier calls PM "not real." Nice job @claudeai

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Nick O'Brien@NickLovesSpain·
In the 1800s, Barcelona was choking. Walled in. Overcrowded. Rotting from the inside. Until one man came along with a vision. And revolutionized urban planning in the process... 🧵
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Nermin Catovic@iamchataa·
@ryolu_ @cursor_ai Feature wise - add Enhance Prompt button. This is what would improve your prompt so that LLM and @cursor_ai understand it better. This is a really cool option in @boltdotnew and Cursor should have it. I shouldn’t need to go to ChatGPT to improve my prompt
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Ryo Lu@ryolu_·
What are the biggest roadblocks you faced when starting on @cursor_ai ? Tell us so we can fix them all 👇
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Nermin Catovic@iamchataa·
Dok mnogi mahalaju o minimalnoj placi, i pokazuju elementarno finansijsko neznanje, neki od nas rade na novim idejama, poboljsanju poslovne klime i edukaciji 📈🤑 #mojbiznis #ideas #startup #education
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Nermin Catovic@iamchataa·
“There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” - Alfred Henry Lewis
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What makes this approach work isn’t just the structure—it’s the people. Our dedication to creating an environment where teams feel supported, valued, and empowered has been just as crucial. This is what’s helped us achieve a nearly 95% retention rate in our Tech and Product teams
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Nermin Catovic@iamchataa·
👉🏻 Collaboration as a Priority: Empowering Product Managers, Tech Leads, Designers, and Venture Architects to work seamlessly together. 👉🏻 Ownership with Support: Giving teams the autonomy to own their domains, backed by senior leadership to clear blockers and keep things moving.
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Nermin Catovic@iamchataa·
Our Approach: 👉🏻Breaking Down Silos: Aligning teams with a shared foundation of knowledge around business goals and user needs. 👉🏻 Staying Agile: Tackling challenges head-on and adapting quickly to change.
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Nermin Catovic@iamchataa·
Result of nearly three years of effort, growth, and learning at MVP Factory and Ness Digital Engineering, where we’ve been rethinking how teams collaborate to drive real impact. mvpfactory.co/en/insights/ar…
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If there’s one thing I’ve learned in tech leadership, it’s this: siloed teams come at a high cost. At MVP Factory, we’ve worked hard to change that by building a framework for collaboration that fosters innovation, drives value, and puts teamwork at the center.
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Neil Druckmann
Neil Druckmann@Neil_Druckmann·
Blast off! Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is our next big thing! Enjoy this first look at Naughty Dog's wildest adventure yet!
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Nermin Catovic@iamchataa·
@elonmusk Sad to see that Bosnia and Herzegovina is still a dark spot on the map. @elonmusk do something about it :)
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RevenueCat
RevenueCat@RevenueCat·
LOOKING FOR APPS BUILT IN BERLIN 📣 For something cool outside of @droidconBerlin we need apps built in Berlin, using RevenueCat. Tag your app below and we’ll pick 10 before end of this week What we’re doing is a secret for now, but it rhymes with big schmigital schmillboard
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Tyler Bruno
Tyler Bruno@tylerbruno05·
Escape the idea that there's a magical audience watching you
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Reads with Ravi
Reads with Ravi@readswithravi·
The 5 Most Famous Laws in the World ‼️
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The Culturist
The Culturist@the_culturist_·
His point was that a democracy is only as good as the education system surrounding it. Jefferson said much the same: "If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be".
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non aesthetic things
non aesthetic things@PicturesFoIder·
People who haven't watched Game of Thrones will never understand what this scene did to us
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