Shaun Clowes: belief

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…Scary, but it turns out it's for the best often. Before we get to very exciting lightning round, is there anything else that you want to mention or leave listeners with maybe a last nugget, something that you think might be helpful before we wrap? Maybe a couple of different things that I think are sometimes well understood, but just repeating them I guess because they're very valuable to me. One is that if you let your calendar rule you, then nothing good will happen. I know people talk about that a lot, but it's surprisingly common in product management in particular that people end up ruled by their calendar. And so it's related to that whole look at spend 80% of your time thinking about things going on outside the business. Easy said, very hard to do, and if you don't do it, no one's going to do it for you. And so it is really hard to be successful unless you find a way to force that to happen. So to repeat that, also, somebody said this to me, I never looked up the quote, but apparently Colin Powell said that if you're making a decision with less than 30% of the available data, you're making a big mistake. If you're making a decision only after you have 70%, either the 70% or 77%, I can't remember the exact number, when you have 77% of all the available data, you have waited far too long. And I've always found that very insightful and it relates a little bit to what we're talking about about data earlier, but at the end of the day, we get paid in product management to make decisions, good decisions, paid to make good decisions that will deliver business benefit. And a decision with too little data is fatal. A decision that takes too long and collects too much data is also fatal. So everything, it's about trying to find the balance of all of these different things to try and deliver business advantage. A great way to circle back to all the things we've been talking about. With that, we've reached our very exciting lightning round. Are you ready?…

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