SAIA

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[SAIA @IAmSAIA]

Lead with your strengths
Always say thank you
Be a giver (not a taker)
Spend time alone
Thinking is work
Create with others
Fail with others
Care, a lot
Be bold; take risks
Filter feedback
Find your community
Have fun
Let vision & purpose decide

Lessons from Product. And Life.

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@editaud_io is now in 1st place @signalawards Listener’s Choice #signalawards. RT + VOTE: https://t.co/tuW2d1Tcr5

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"Ask Gib" question: "What's your deepest insight about teamwork?", by @gibsonbiddle https://t.co/UQXoA9goo5

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Who needs https://t.co/vdiU3sYtdK when the side effect of funerals is discovering with just as much surprise the family relations and history you never knew you had.

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I can only stand still like a deer in headlights while listening to even the simplest of Spanish greetings. So there’s that. 🙃

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@jenistyping Say no, tell the story. Light attracts light, always. And if you’re the employee where you suspect the founder would even consider the other option, leave. You’ll never be safe there.

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Does risk aversion not work here?

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@heybenji That’s so comforting to hear. Thanks for sharing. And sorry to hear about your Dad, too ❤️

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My mother recently passed away. I’ve kept on working, and trying to breathe in between the moments I forget my world is literally upside down. I’ve never experienced grief like this. But then folks ask me why I haven’t take time off, and I wonder/worry if I’m doing it wrong.

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Something about losing a loved one puts things in perspective. It’s happened several times to me in the past few years. I’m starting to see the correlation between loss I’ve experienced and my paradoxically upbeat disposition when it comes to work: nothing is ever that deep.

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Yup. You can be all the way real with your team, your manager, your colleagues, anyone - when they know that you genuinely care about them.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Withholding feedback is choosing comfort over growth. Staying silent deprives people of the opportunity to learn.

If you're worried about hurting their feelings, it's a sign that you haven't earned their trust.

In healthy relationships, honesty is an expression of care.

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@MiroHQ I've been searching for a help button/way to contact support from within the app and just gave up. I deleted a team member and expected it would save their boards but those are gone. How to recover?

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@johncutlefish Events Planning

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@hpdailyrant @hpdailyrant For me, it’s the information architect and experience designer role—both go hand in hand, at least for the insights-powered platforms I’ve worked on. So cool to hear from someone with a product experience so strangely similar to mine.

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@cwodtke @cagan @bfgmartin @ttorres @johncutlefish @lissijean @TheHonorableAT @d8a_driven @iamctodd No matter the words it always goes down as the “old” way is bad. Frankly, I think it’s okay to call a spade a spade. We don’t think it makes sense for folks to guess their way through product work so I’m not sure why we dance around the fact that it’s wrong when teams do 🤷‍♀️

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@cwodtke @cagan @bfgmartin @ttorres @johncutlefish @lissijean @TheHonorableAT @d8a_driven @iamctodd Late to the party but I’ve been using both “modern product management” and “evidence-based product development” for a while. I’ve also sometimes talked about moving away from a delivery-first culture, and embracing a learning-first culture.

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@hpdailyrant Ops is legacy from the era of assembly line / command & control mgmt where lives were literally on the line and so mitigating risk as an imperative made sense. But on innovation teams, risk is the lever to wield. So the interventions here stifle more than they unlock potential.

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@hpdailyrant This is so real.

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What's the fastest way to kill innovation on product teams?

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@timeyoutakeit LinkedIn (https://t.co/wO0tiM9x5o) if that works !

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@timeyoutakeit Send them my way ! (Also hi @timeyoutakeit !) 🙂