markgandolfo

Technologist | Product Manager | Still loves writing code in Ruby, Javascript.

[markgandolfo @markgandolfo]

Week 1: Listen, don't suggest
W. 2: Map influence, not just org charts
W. 3: Create visibility via documentation
W. 4: Ship something small but visible
W. 5: Reveal customer insights others missed
W. 6: Share vision backed by evidence

Great PMs build understanding before impact.

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Sergey Brin wants engineers working 60-hour weeks in-office to build AI that could automate their own jobs.
The power shift is fascinating - from engineers having leverage to executives reasserting control post-pandemic.

As leaders, what's our responsibility here?

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Product meetings fail when people speak different languages:

Execution: How we build it
Impact: How it creates value
Optics: How we tell the story

Engineers talk execution.
CEOs talk optics.
Great PMs translate between all three.
Which language are you speaking today

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Product evolution truth: You can't lead Pioneers like Town Planners 🧭
Pioneers → embrace failure
Settlers → drive growth
Planners → optimise efficiency
Using the wrong leadership style for your product's stage is product management malpractice.
Which are you leading today?

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Setting AI project goals:
Wrong: 'Make it perfect'
Right: 'Achieve 90% accuracy'

Your AI doesn't need to be perfect. It needs to be precise enough to transform a process.
Define success statistically, not romantically

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The @DeveloperVoices vid with Alice Cecile (one of the contributors of Bevy) does a great job of talking through how to manage without authority. https://t.co/s6lrtev3nB

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copilot just offered me someone's name as a suggestion for the first line in a program. I'm not sure how i feel about this.

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@AdamRackis you're mistaken, but it's understandable. They've cropped the washbasin out.

Her hands are dirty, and she's washing them after a day of trying to center a div.

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@teej_dv it's in the linux kernel. so I'm going to say, like most of the world?

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Philipp Oppermann's 'how to write a kernel' series is mind boggling fun. https://t.co/h1neTZqdIn

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@ParvSondhi some monday's i have 11 meetings. still not sure why i choose this life

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@OngDevLab your banks are running on it

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@BarelyAGS https://t.co/kM0xxJPVqr

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this is wild

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New video is up on the channel now!

ASCII Rendering (Turning Games Into Text)

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Starting to get my head into #Rustlang a little more. I'm even managing to be a bit proficient.

I built a simple lexer that prints an AST (single level) in a couple of hours last night/today.

https://t.co/YJ6Ij5Vf8y

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As a pair programmer / rubber ducky @AnthropicAI / #claudeai seems more succinct that chatgpt. But their pricing model/usage model seems limiting. @AnthropicAI any word on when you'll increase the messages/hour limit?

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Codecrafters was a really cool way to "learn" rust. https://t.co/x36JfKuS1n -- not the nicest code. but it was interesting

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@nurijanian Also. Most things feel like they're written by a llm these days.

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@nurijanian As an ex software engineer it's a stark contrast in communities.Devs share cause they love creating cool stuff. The pm community tends to feel like a sales tactic by a company to sell stuff or self promote. I feel like I fall in and out of love with consuming content due to this.

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@mbleigh Who hurt you?