Marcin Bober

Product Design Manager @SnowflakeDB, previously: Google, Philips, TU/e

[Marcin Bober @marcinbober]

@justinsunyt Love it!

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

OK I have to admit I was surprised to meet engineers and EMs today who work in the Warsaw office of:

- Google
- NVIDIA
- Netflix
- Snowflake
- Meta
- Superhuman
- Wix

Can’t name another city in Europe save for London with this much concentration of Big Tech + hot startups! 🇵🇱

[Marcin Bober @marcinbober]

User perception of system responsiveness and latency are some of the most underappreciated issues in designing web-based tools. Companies that are doing it well are @figma, @zeddotdev, @linear, @canva, and @motherduck (all using tech stacks).
https://t.co/IlGMMkgIzG

[Marcin Bober @marcinbober]

I've just taken @shreyas's Product Sense course-the most profound educational experience I've had in my career. Rare to find an instructor who not only has leadership experience in the top tech companies but also combines it with such depth of reflection and clarity of thinking.

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

✨New launch, 2 years in the making:
Just wrapped up the very first cohort of my course on Improving your Product Sense.

https://t.co/I1yn0RBinH

It was an intensive 1 week course (18+ hours of instruction with lots of examples & practice, and 7-8 hours of Q&A sessions, all live on Zoom).

This inaugural cohort was capped at 48 people — founders, eng managers, design managers, PM leaders, IC PMs, and engineers from these companies:

Docusign
Amazon
OpenAI
Front
Cash App
Coda
YouTube
Palo Alto Networks
Meta
Vidyard
Walmart
Google
Reddit
Uber
Square
Indiegogo
2K Games
Invideo AI
Snowflake
Tubi TV
Broadcom
Grubhub
Intuit
+several startups across the globe

I have been working on this course for 2 years and did not launch it all this while because I wanted it to be really, really good.

Specifically, I have designed this course around building the skill of making better product decisions (macro & micro), by significantly deepening students’ understanding of human nature, systems, strategy, competitive dynamics, creative execution, taste, influence, etc.

It is much easier to build a course or a bootcamp around process-oriented & framework-oriented content, but the big problem is that you can follow the process and the framework and odds are high that you will still fail.

People who consistently build successful products do not succeed because they talk to customers & test+iterate & focus on the user & scratch their own itch & make something people want & answer support tickets etc. etc.

Of course they do all of these things — but these tablestakes aren’t actually going to make you successful.

They are necessary conditions for product success, but the sufficient conditions are about how you extract the best, correct signal from all of these activities and what skills enable you to get insights from these activities that no one else is getting and how you creatively execute on those insights to build something amazing.

So in my course I decided to focus on skill-building, not process-knowledge & not framework-acquisition & not inspiring success tales that aren’t actually actionable for your startup or product.

Of course, this self-imposed constraint made it much harder to build out the curriculum & content, but after 2 years of working on it and trying to perfect it, I am pleased to say that the first cohort of this course was a resounding success.

The next cohort is in July — we are going to take the lessons from this one and make it even better.

After July, we will have more frequent cohorts (likely every month) and we will also increase cohort size.

So if you have already applied for the course but didn’t get into the inaugural cohort, don’t worry, we will get you into another one later this year.

Thank you for all your love & support, and most importantly, your patience, as I kept on delaying the launch of this course like 5 times since 2022 😄

But fortunately, it’s here now, and it’s a lot of fun 🙌🏽🙏🏽❤️

[Marcin Bober @marcinbober]

Things will go fast when LLM tech is universally applied.

[Figure @Figure_robot]

With OpenAI, Figure 01 can now have full conversations with people

-OpenAI models provide high-level visual and language intelligence
-Figure neural networks deliver fast, low-level, dexterous robot actions

Everything in this video is a neural network:

[Marcin Bober @marcinbober]

You are what you eat. https://t.co/5TM5oJWEd6

[Marcin Bober @marcinbober]

@ralphammer I love both the depth and clarity of your communication (text+visuals). Wonderful stuff, thank you!

[Marcin Bober @marcinbober]

Being mindful of the investments of time, of one’s calendar, and maintaining an equilibrium between composing and editing time is nuanced challenge. One of the best video on management (including self management) out there. Highlights are mine. https://t.co/UOaNeZOZBZ

[Marcin Bober @marcinbober]

AI-enhanced human empathy?
https://t.co/XKzhunzYF3

[Marcin Bober @marcinbober]

Snowflake Design at #waysconf

[Marcin Bober @marcinbober]

Toda we talk about @SnowflakeDB design at #waysconf. We will talk how extremely collaborative, quality-oriented culture, "slow haste," and a strong focus on craft contribute to an environment where product design is the key differentiator. Looking forward to meeting you there!

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

Don’t be the middle manager who states that you “have strong opinions weakly held” but your team has never actually felt the weakly held part of that statement, except when there’s pushback from someone more powerful in the org, in which case it happens to always be weakly held😄

[Marcin Bober @marcinbober]

@joshuajenkins Haha it worked out somehow:)

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

Just think how much we can each and all create for sake of good, if we deliberately transmute the impulse to gossip or engage in ineffectual criticism, into thoughts and actions that actually build something. Choice points to do this abound.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Historic. Timely. Brave. I welcomed @POTUS in Kyiv as Russian full-scale aggression approaches its one-year mark. I am thankful to the U.S. for standing with Ukraine and for our strong partnership. We are determined to work together to ensure Ukraine’s victory.

[Adrien Treuille @myelbows]

This is genuinely cool. It's amazing to live though this Cambrian explosion of mind-bending AI products.

[Marcin Bober @marcinbober]

Game design is essentially finding elegant and lean solutions while building complex systems with (multiple) humans in the loop. So much inspiration and insights for those designing “serious” software. https://t.co/P6xczcxffS #systems_thinking #product_design

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

If you work on products and you make product/UX decisions as part of your job, save this video on the 7 approaches game designers use to solve problems. It teaches more real stuff than some PM books. My favorite is # 4 Flip it on its head.

h/t @dev__adi

https://t.co/tekI4H6RiJ

[Mathias Funk @matsfunk]

sneak preview: democracy on mars

[Tomasz Tunguz @ttunguz]

Amp It Up : Frank Slootman, CEO of Snowflake, imbues this book with the focused intensity that has propelled his companies to the zeniths of their respective industries.
https://t.co/OU9ADLBg56

[VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏 @VCBrags]

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