Kevin Friedman

Product Engineering Leader. Entrepreneur. NYC. Board Gamer. Currently: CTO, Formerly: @TpT_Official, @nypl, Founder @Cojourneo. (He/Him)

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

@NYPost_Mets Has David Stearns ever said what he’s learned (or will do different) with team construction?

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

@SNY_Mets What do you think David Stearns got wrong about constructing the Mets this season?

[Utility @Utility_agency]

Thanks to Sports Business Journal @SBJ and well done @bportnoy15 on a great piece, we're proud to be leading the tech journey with our client @getsnacksports and AI video partner @WSC_Sports. Big things to come.

#MarchMadness #MarchMadness2025

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

I’d rather take a risk and believe in someone and fail than never believe. It’s my fatal flaw but one I’m willing to accept.

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

@__apf__ Done! Thanks so much. I also reached out to @estark37. You’re doing such invaluable work! 👏

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

@__apf__ Hi Adriana! Not sure if you can help but our company is being targeted by a massive, work-from-home crypto scam and we haven’t had any luck getting offending sites listed in Google Safe Browsing. Is there anyone I can chat with to learn more? Thank you!

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

@estark37 Hi Emily! Not sure if you can help but our company is being targeted by a massive, work-from-home crypto scam and we haven’t had any luck getting offending sites listed in Google Safe Browsing. Is there anyone I can chat with to learn more? Thank you!

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

@Evanish Don’t have X premium (so can’t DM) but we’re hiring a Head of Sales at https://t.co/yq7N0LchVb to lead/build out our sales org and drive growth. ~100 people and growing fast.

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

Good leadership: saying yes to good things.
Great leadership: saying no to good things.

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

What a great framework on how to evolve and have impact as a leader. It all starts and is constrained by self-awareness and self-work. (h/t @mattblumberg)

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

@visiblecare Just DMed. Thanks!

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

@visiblecare I’ve been trying for 20 minutes to activated by free trial but it’s stuck on the “We’re setting up your free trial” screen and cannot get an eSim. Please help!

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

You can loan it unwisely and go bankrupt (have done that!)

Or, you can invest it well and earn great dividends.

The bottom line is you need to cultivate it through all means—collaboration, communication, investing in the right people, etc.—or you’re not going anywhere great.

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

Trust is the currency of organizational growth.

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

This post from @asmartbear is so good at illustrating rigorous thinking about the speed of decisions and a great counterpoint to Amazon’s Leadership Principle of “Bias for Action”: https://t.co/TE6IH2d21E

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

@arewenotmen I 100% expected to see you as the creator of this project: https://t.co/CIco3nedhN 😂

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

@clickup As a recovering JIRA/Confluence user, we happily use ClickUp for everything! #LevelUp2023

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

@holingpoon @wluisi1 @edwingzmn @bldmtn @daukherville @arewenotmen That’s a good one. I’ll see you and raise with: https://t.co/6W9BQ56vnA

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

@copyconstruct I posted more of my thoughts about tech debt and, hopefully, how to break the cycle of wasted debate here: https://t.co/fmQXEGG6t4

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

As @copyconstruct points out, there’s tons of wasted energy and “us versus them” blame arguing about nebulous “tech debt”.

To break this cycle, we need to reframe the problem as well-intentioned (hopefully) people trying to maximize impact of the most valuable resource—TIME.

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

@copyconstruct Totally agree. I think this article (https://t.co/tnhceyy7mt) was really helpful in addressing the underlying challenge: ensuring we use our most valuable (and contentious) resource—time—for maximum impact. You can then reframe and develop a real strategy for "tech debt".

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

This grounds contentious and amorphous debate in the reality of our most limited resource—TIME—that everyone is (rightfully) vying for and can also give a clearer and more impact-oriented language for ultimately addressing tech debt (e.g. KTLO, productivity improvements, etc.).

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

As @copyconstruct points out, there’s tons of wasted energy and “us versus them” blame arguing about nebulous “tech debt”.

To break this cycle, we need to reframe the problem as well-intentioned (hopefully) people trying to maximize impact of the most valuable resource—TIME.

[Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct]

Tech Debt is one of those things that make sense to engineering, but to leadership it sounds like “we’ve created a mess over the years that slowed the product, we did nothing to fix it, and now we need to spend *even more* time and people on fixing it”.

Not a winning argument.

[Kevin Friedman @friedmank]

This article (https://t.co/tnhceyPaot) was extremely helpful reframing the “tech debt problem” as needing to build clear alignment on TIME allocation among options to maximize impact.