Brandon Trew

Product Leader @ Uber's Delivery Marketplace. Idealist. Singularitarian. Geek. Aspiring Photographer. Loving Dad

[Brandon Trew @brandontrew]

@karanjagtiani04 The GEM "snapshots" the docs when invoked (a new thread), then doesn't update again. So the added latency is very low compared to the chain-of-thought thinking time.

[Brandon Trew @brandontrew]

1/10 🧵
I’ve found something in Gemini GEMs that feels like a hidden OS.

It starts with an "aha" moment: a Google Doc attached as a knowledge file is "live."

This isn't just for RAG. It's for instructions. Gemini can treat doc content as executable code for its own prompt. 👇

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10/10
I'm only just beginning to figure out where this could go in terms of a true "Leadership assistant".

For anyone interested, I've open-sourced the router & "skills file" for this system here: https://t.co/nYcPcLAaI4

Collaboration welcome!

[Brandon Trew @brandontrew]

9/10
This is where GEMs break, @joshwoodward. The Gemini side panel is actively fighting the GEM:

- Force-injects the open doc, overriding the context.
- Lets the GEM silently skip core/output instructions.

Fixing this would transform Workspace use👇

[Brandon Trew @brandontrew]

@nikolausvolk rented a car from you this morning at 8am and it arrived 9:30. Great! Really bad though - can’t add my wife as a driver since it’s <2 hrs before trip time 🤕. Customer support is flailing. Please help.

[Brandon Trew @brandontrew]

Congrats to the @coda_hq team on the launch of their new Doc Gallery https://t.co/EYa7RJzyM8. The team collaborated with me to publish my Map Visualization app, which you can find alongside other tools, templates and docs https://t.co/TmbSLvIF2u

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I just published PM power tools: Bring complex team processes & data to life with Coda. https://t.co/FaNACdBMkF

[Brandon Trew @brandontrew]

Here's the fourth post in my series: "Product Manager Toolkit— 3b. How to drive from Vision to Impact"
https://t.co/OLjdqPoB93

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@tkmoyer88 thanks for the great Alex van Helden show at the Edinburgh Castle.

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Here's the 3rd post in my series: "Product Manager Toolkit: 3a. Driving change — from Zero to Strategy"
https://t.co/ASwBTIJChY

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I just published Product Manager Toolkit: 2. Purposeful Change Management https://t.co/wNIGeB9sNO

[Brandon Trew @brandontrew]

I just published "Product Manager Toolkit: 1. Toolkit Overview" at https://t.co/nhcq6PwzYh. Share your thoughts and suggestions

[Brandon Trew @brandontrew]

#GreatRead: The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen - https://t.co/ppVdoYn9dS