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Hooked
“I really like Hooked. That's a book that I know came out a few years ago, but I find that that model is just such an effective model for thinking about how to create products that are engaging.”
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Ravi Mehta
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What Ravi said.
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01 / evaluation
These competencies I think are the same for APMs as they are for CPOs, and I can talk a little bit about how they change as a person gets more senior.
“These competencies I think are the same for APMs as they are for CPOs, and I can talk a little bit about how they change as a person gets more senior.”
- Speaker
- Ravi Mehta
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
02 / evaluation
I think the desire to always set outcome-based goals is just shorthand for we want you to move the needle and we want you to be thinking about that.
“I think the desire to always set outcome-based goals is just shorthand for we want you to move the needle and we want you to be thinking about that.”
- Speaker
- Ravi Mehta
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
03 / evaluation
I think a fundamental part of being a really good product manager is the ability to think about the user experience in a very detailed way to make sure that you're not just defining functionality, but you're really clearly understanding how that functionality turns into user experience.
“I think a fundamental part of being a really good product manager is the ability to think about the user experience in a very detailed way to make sure that you're not just defining functionality, but you're really clearly understanding how that functionality turns into user experience.”
- Speaker
- Ravi Mehta
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
04 / evaluation
If you ask me to remove retention, I can brainstorm 10 experiments, but I don't actually know why people are continuing to use our product. And so then it doesn't make sense to commit to a retention goal because you're going to sort of throw a spaghetti against the wall, have a bunch of experiments, [inaudible 00:49:16] will stick, and maybe you'll be able to move the metric, but you won't have understood exactly why, or you might move the metric in a way that is not tied to the strategy that you have as a business.
“If you ask me to remove retention, I can brainstorm 10 experiments, but I don't actually know why people are continuing to use our product. And so then it doesn't make sense to commit to a retention goal because you're going to sort of throw a spaghetti against the wall, have a bunch of experiments, [inaudible 00:49:16] will stick, and maybe you'll be able to move the metric, but you won't have understood exactly why, or you might move the metric in a way that is not tied to the strategy that you have as a business.”
- Speaker
- Ravi Mehta
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
05 / evaluation
The second thing is that rate limits the size of the team that you can manage because you can only do that for a finite set of people before you yourself are tapped out on bandwidth.
“The second thing is that rate limits the size of the team that you can manage because you can only do that for a finite set of people before you yourself are tapped out on bandwidth.”
- Speaker
- Ravi Mehta
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
06 / evaluation
You would never work with an architect that didn't provide you a blueprint of the house that they want to build for you because being able to describe a house in words alone is not enough.
“You would never work with an architect that didn't provide you a blueprint of the house that they want to build for you because being able to describe a house in words alone is not enough.”
- Speaker
- Ravi Mehta
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast