app / uses
Zoom
“I use Zoom so much that I feel like I must say it, because I spend so much of my time on it and it's categorically better than Google Meet”
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Zoelle Egner
Published podcast speaker
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- 1
- Named items
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Books, apps, and tools
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book / recommends
Computing Taste
“Okay, I hate this question because I take pride in making highly targeted recommendations, but I will do it anyway. I'm pretty sure you mostly talk to product and growth people. Right now, obviously, AI is a big topic of conversation, so here are two books that will enrich your mental model for artificial intelligence and encourage you to think about it from different perspectives. The first one, a little bit academic, highly recommend it, though. It's a book called Computing Taste by Nick Seaver. He's a professor of anthropology and he did this study of people and companies who build music recognition algorithms. And it's a really interesting book for a bunch of reasons, including that it's a academic take on both tech culture, and more specifically, the unspoken and underlying assumptions that many workers who are building in this space have. It can be a little spicy and uncomfortable for a person in tech to read, but I think it is a fascinating perspective and very relevant to the stuff that's going on in AI right now. So go check it out. Computing Taste by Nick Seaver. The second is a fiction book, but the Ancillary Justice series by Anne Leckie, about a spaceship AI that ends up separated from its ship and trapped in a body. I'm going to leave it at that. Worth reading for a different way of thinking about AI.”
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What Zoelle said.
5 transcript-backed records
01 / belief
A lot of people think that the epitome of product marketing is creating your own category. And while I agree that it is useful to have strong differentiators, because it is, I think creating a category, getting a new thing in Gartner or whatever, is often a waste of your time.
“A lot of people think that the epitome of product marketing is creating your own category. And while I agree that it is useful to have strong differentiators, because it is, I think creating a category, getting a new thing in Gartner or whatever, is often a waste of your time.”
- Speaker
- Zoelle Egner
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
02 / belief
I would say you can expect that some of that inventory is in the low thousands of dollars, which is way lower than you might expect.
“I would say you can expect that some of that inventory is in the low thousands of dollars, which is way lower than you might expect.”
- Speaker
- Zoelle Egner
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
03 / belief
I think where I get excited is when the companies do this in a way that feels less self-serving, or less obviously self-serving. And that means that sometimes you have to be willing to invest in things that will not have super obviously immediate ROI for you, but they will for the community, and for building the community.
“I think where I get excited is when the companies do this in a way that feels less self-serving, or less obviously self-serving. And that means that sometimes you have to be willing to invest in things that will not have super obviously immediate ROI for you, but they will for the community, and for building the community.”
- Speaker
- Zoelle Egner
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
04 / belief
I would argue in retrospect, absolutely, yes, there were opportunities that were left on the table, but in early days you leave good opportunities because you have to focus on other things.
“I would argue in retrospect, absolutely, yes, there were opportunities that were left on the table, but in early days you leave good opportunities because you have to focus on other things.”
- Speaker
- Zoelle Egner
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
05 / belief
I would say in many of the companies I have worked at, that has been me, because I've been the marketing human who cares.
“I would say in many of the companies I have worked at, that has been me, because I've been the marketing human who cares.”
- Speaker
- Zoelle Egner
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast