(If you can get even passably good at estimation and planning, you will be almost a literal deity walking among humans.)

not sure. @303.bsky.social has been keeping me busy so my social habit has taken a hit lately. if it has, i hope the bloviating thot leedurs decided to stay behind so the rest of us can actually have a conversation

i feel seen

💯 building for yourself is a fallacy and somehow tech culture decided that was a good way to build products despite the decades of evidence saying otherwise https://www.nngroup.com/articles/false-consensus/

You Are Not the User: The False-Consensus Effect

Designers, developers, and even UX researchers fall prey to the false-consensus effect, projecting their behaviors and reactions onto users.

hi justin! 👋

i felt this in my knees

and to expand upon that a bit further - shipping in startups is about trading off scope and time under conditions of irreducible uncertainty and complexity. PMs in entrepreneurial environments need authority to make this trade-off (and be accountable for the outcomes of their decisions).

agreed. which is why i have my PMs do both. how much one needs to lean towards one or the other depends on a bunch company-specific variables: • stage • growth velocity (💰+🧍) • codebase health • vertical & customer • eng location, composition, & level of talent

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