Ady

Aspiring to become top 1% Product Manager.

[Ady @6footguy]

Presenting Vantage64:

Platform to judge your performance under time pressure

[Ady @6footguy]

@ianmcall has dropped his playbook to become the top 1% of the top 10% PM!

Around the year 2012, he wrote the first blog discussing about the skills required for top Product Managers in the World.

And based on the recommendations he received, he has now upgraded his playbook.

[Ady @6footguy]

@rajshamani The platform will mark your progress on a topic only if you're able to explain it in your own words. The wordings can be different but the context shouldn't change.

[Ady @6footguy]

@rajshamani this is called "illusion of competence", watching videos, tutorials for hours without any real progress.

That's why, we are building a platform which tracks your progress in real time.

More:

[Ady @6footguy]

a single comment doesn't get much traction...

meanwhile, the comment:

[Ady @6footguy]

@Samaytwt uninstall windows OS, install macOS or Linux

[Ady @6footguy]

i give interviews, they ask for my opinion.

Then they don't agree with my opinion, at the end they reject my application!

Why did you ask my opinion at the first place?

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Leonardo da Vinci's greatest paragraph

[Ady @6footguy]

Invisible product decisions are the best ones. Users never notice them until they're gone.

[Ady @6footguy]

Who thought buffering could be a Product Design Masterstroke?

Here's how Youtube is using Buffering as a way of User Retention:

[Ady @6footguy]

That seamless quality shift when your wifi drops?

Not magic.

A PM and an engineer once sat in a room and decided the experience of slightly worse quality was better than the experience of stopping entirely.

[Ady @6footguy]

The best product decisions aren't always about removing friction. Sometimes they're about placing it exactly right.

[Ady @6footguy]

Youtube isn't letting you leave the platform.

Here's how:

[Ady @6footguy]

Just enough resistance to make you feel in control, while the algorithm has already decided what you're watching next.

That's Friction Engineering.

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

The foundations of a successful country are simpler than most people think–productive citizens, a civil environment, and peace. If you understand that framework, you should be able to understand where we are in the big cycle of political and social order and disorder.

History shows us that when the causes people are willing to fight for are more important to them than the system, the system is in jeopardy.

[Ady @6footguy]

@adahstwt hands down startup. everytime. the career push you'd get, same would take 2x in MNCs.

[Ady @6footguy]

@YouTube @instagram @Reddit @GooglePay @brave
Closest competitor of Chrome. I've started choosing Brave over other Browsers, simply because of No-Ads Feature.

As a user, you never like Ads in your work. And Brave has solved that problem for me.

I'd improve their search bar AI - it's still not as smooth as Chrome.

[Ady @6footguy]

my favourite applications to use:

1. Youtube (premium)
2. Instagram
3. Reddit
4. GPay
5. Brave

Reasons:

[Ady @6footguy]

@YouTube @instagram @Reddit @GooglePay
The simple user journey of this application making the payments smooth and minimalist. Low latency and offline payment features.

Hardly the app is ever down which is rare if we look at it's competitors.