Dan James

Dad. Product geek. Finance geek. Recently woodworking geek. Trying to make useful things.

[Dan James @daniel_r_james]

Every blank required field in your Product is a cost that may drop customers from the funnel.

Good Product Managers ruthlessly remove those fields.

[Dan James @daniel_r_james]

I can’t believe that it’s 2023 and some companies are still working on their “digital transformation”.

[Dan James @daniel_r_james]

All roadmaps are wrong. But some are wrong in interesting ways.

[Dan James @daniel_r_james]

@HarryStebbings Any matching service based on a generally status-changing event.

Job sites.
Executive placement services.
M&A firms.
Car buying sites. (You may use it again but not for years?)
Home buying sites.

[Dan James @daniel_r_james]

Discipline maintains, when motivation wanes.

[Dan James @daniel_r_james]

@Chris_arnade Bro thinks that point of notes is to memorize.

https://t.co/sllfQTMBBB

[Tim Ottinger @tottinge]

Do One Thing vs While You’re At It
I realized that I had the advantage of having had good coworkers and mentors who have always appreciated the value of taking tiny steps. I was lucky to know “Curly’s Law”: “One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that.” https://t.co/B4KIIU2hbU

[Dan James @daniel_r_james]

@KieranSnyder I think this might be an under appreciated use case for API and some open source. Let the people who care about the experience invest in bettering it.

I’d love to build a better TeamSnap app for parents if I had the opportunity.

[Dan James @daniel_r_james]

@KieranSnyder I don’t mean to be cynical. I’m a parent and a product manager at startups.

But honestly parents aren’t picking or leaving leagues because of their choice of app. Parent preferences make almost no impact on rev.

When resources are tight it’s hard to justify the efforts.

[Dan James @daniel_r_james]

If your solution to “we really need to know X” is “add a mandatory field that users have to fill out”, then your Product Team needs to level up.

(Looking at Jira and PagerDuty and all the “case capture” systems)

[Dan James @daniel_r_james]

Every blank required field in your Product is a cost that may drop customers from the funnel.

Good Product Managers ruthlessly remove those fields.

[Dan James @daniel_r_james]

@LogTechEric Do you think Halaand has peaked them?

Barring injury, I suspect he’s going to get a lot more dangerous over the coming years as he keeps adding subtlety to his game.

[Dan James @daniel_r_james]

@LogTechEric Best finisher in the world? On the table.

Ballon d’or? Not even close (yet). Not until he figures out how to contribute n multiple ways.

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@LogTechEric I think there is no question that Haaland will go down as a better finisher than Messi/Mbappe.

But he is still very one dimensional. He never really contributes anything n any other fashion. So when he isn’t finishing he just disappears.

[Dan James @daniel_r_james]

The most powerful force in technology is inertia.

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@PavelASamsonov “As an LLM I want to…..”

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@retirednurse45 @NoLieWithBTC It is possible that this recruiting business was at arms length, and Roberts was completely unaware of the money his family earned from these law firms.

But ethically it does create an entanglement - because Roberts is judging people who are paying for his lifestyle.

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@retirednurse45 @NoLieWithBTC I am a Big Law firm who represents lots of cases. I have a big case going before the Supreme Court.

Before my case starts, I pay the Chief Justice’s wife $500k “to help me recruit”, I become one of her biggest clients and get friendly with her family.

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If you work in advertising or email and you don’t have a very strong thesis about how your world will change radically in 2-3 years due to LLM’s, then you are in a very dangerous place.

Like “Sears being late to e-commerce” dangerous.