Jeremy Alexander

PM @TourRadar, formerly @Productboard @Facebook, @SocialTalent, failed founder, recovering workaholic

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

More and more, I have lost conviction that “minimum viable products” make sense for product development.

It makes no sense to release a product with the core flow and then dismiss its viability after the aggregate data says people aren’t using it.

Instead, founders should have a fundamental belief about what people want—and they should keep iterating until that value is correctly surfaced.

In practice, this means you should keep a steady flow of new users as you add components to the product, seeing if it solves a core part of the activation and signup loop.

The only part that could possibly be “half-baked” is those individual components. But even those need sufficient quality so there are no confounding factors that distort the signal.

[Jeremy Alexander @JBD_Alexander]

@jonchu There must be more context. I was there for years I struggle to imagine anyone getting in trouble for this.

[Jeremy Alexander @JBD_Alexander]

@gregisenberg How do they manage attribution in an easy way?

[kache @yacineMTB]

the existence of "experts" is a myth

the fact that certain skills are "deep" is a meme. you can learn anything in one or two weeks. the only thing that exists is depth

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

some people during standup

[Jeremy Alexander @JBD_Alexander]

k8s

[lachlan @hyprturing]

what about the modern world would actually be difficult to explain, at a high level, to someone from the 1200s?

[Jeremy Alexander @JBD_Alexander]

@tommyswriting His claim was extremely weak. His ancestor Arvedui attempted to claim the throne and was denied by the stewards of Gondor.

[Jeremy Alexander @JBD_Alexander]

@KatrinaKibben luckily the models aren't deterministic

[Jeremy Alexander @JBD_Alexander]

@ThePrimeagen @angular Where do you ship from?

[Jeremy Alexander @JBD_Alexander]

@aakashgupta If PMs can't get a first draft out in an hour, or the org can't find them that time, it seems to highlight bigger issues that need to be resolved.

[Jeremy Alexander @JBD_Alexander]

@aakashgupta My thoughts: I get quite concerned when I read any documents clearly drafted with AI. It's unclear whether they've done any of the proper thinking and there's always irrelevant words or information. I'd rather read a scratchy, scrappy bullet point list.

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

frontend dev and backend dev working together

[ᐱ ᑎ ᑐ ᒋ ᕮ ᒍ @Andr3jH]

they create more shareholder value than 95% of engineers but y'all are not ready for that conversation.

[Jeremy Alexander @JBD_Alexander]

@0xSMW Still sad. Slack is like a company-wide meeting with no agenda.

[Laurie Voss @seldo]

The primary way ChatGPT helps me with writing tasks is I ask it to produce a first draft, and it's so terrible that I go "jesus, I can do better than THAT" and throw it away and write the whole thing from scratch.

[Jeremy Alexander @JBD_Alexander]

@emerywells Looks like you're filtering out candidates who answer the question they're asked. Spotify IS an example of world class execution.

If you asked about inspiring design, unique insights, unique insights, or clever solutions, plenty of PH companies fit.

[Jeremy Alexander @JBD_Alexander]

@forgebitz It's the same price as a cup of coffee an hour

[Jeremy Alexander @JBD_Alexander]

@BrightInsight6 Except we do know. Copper tools + sand. Sand is harder than granite and can easily cut through it.b