01 / recommendation
Do not use, I don't have a designer, to be the excuse for why you don't bring it to life.
“Do not use, I don't have a designer, to be the excuse for why you don't bring it to life.”
- Speaker
- Ebi Atawodi
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
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01 / recommendation
“Do not use, I don't have a designer, to be the excuse for why you don't bring it to life.”
02 / belief
“" Matilde, my engineering partner or Brian, my engineering partner, whoever those are, they know I care about them. So when the feedback is coming like raw, they know that it's in their best interest because I've shown them enough times that I genuinely care about the person behind the role.”
03 / belief
“I've tried to do it in two days. That is the absolute limit because I think you need to create white space for just the magic to happen.”
04 / observation
“However, and I'm talking about PMs from L4 all the way to L7 in my team, which is from a junior PM, senior PM all the way to GPMs in my org, all have a variation of a vision.”
05 / commitment
“I think we will all be more useful to ourselves if we actually spend a lot more time being a bit more present and mindful.”
06 / commitment
“It's knowing that, oh, there's a human, they know I care about them. So when the feedback is coming like raw, they know that it's in their best interest because I've shown enough times that I genuinely care about the person behind the role.”
07 / commitment
“We're doing it because we want to prove to ourselves that we can summit Mount Everest, which I will not be doing anytime soon, and we're doing it to prove to ourselves something that we can do it and we're capable, and we will do that by making sure that we look out for each other.”
08 / preference
“I'm a big fan of evergreen documents because you create this mental thing where everybody just knows, link whatever the short link is, whatever you use in your company, they remember it and that's the link and that's where I go or they know what the name is to search for the document.”
09 / evaluation
“Such a beautiful book because it just goes back to what we talked about earlier, it helps you see that there are patterns in certain things, right?”
10 / recommendation
“So the core of your vision is your team. And I want to make sure my team understands the vision because I'm basically saying, "Get on this boat, we're sailing to the vision of the Bermuda or some island," and I describe this beautiful island.”
11 / recommendation
“That's how I think of clarity. And the tactical thing that I use to bring that clarity is the framework I talked about which is the narrative, insights, strategy, big rocks.”
12 / preference
“ng one because I think you use research. I think research is rich when it's giving you foundational problems that are a couple of cycles out, obviously depending on the level of research you're doing.”
13 / evaluation
“I used to be in Nigeria, that tagline did not scale because water was not that reliable in Nigeria.”
14 / preference
“Most people, it needs to feel within reach. And then I think the key thing is it needs to kind of be in a vacuum from the limitations of today because the whole point of going to the future and saying, [inaudible 00:07:15] time traveled five years out is to say, "Okay, I've come back to tell you what we need to fix in order to get there.”
15 / evaluation
“It's this connected single trip. And the reason I was doing that was I was a Platform PM and surprise surprise, I always say Platform PMs, you have to be an order of magnitude even more stronger I think at vision setting because you have to build the foundations of stuff you don't even know is coming.”