Tom Goldsmith

I have been known to product manage and start new things at various places.

[Tom Goldsmith @TomWGoldsmith]

This has made me smile so much! https://t.co/iYVCADD25n

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A thread which helps you understand why people struggle to understand the boundaries of what statistics can tell you.

[Charlie Bennett @CharIieBennett]

Exhibit 753,917,364 of xG being a load of dross.

Palace apparently deserved to win the game! 😂

Case closed. 🐸☕️ #NUFC

[Tom Goldsmith @TomWGoldsmith]

@kepano Happy to chat if helpful, I love Obsidian and scaled the review process for AR apps (Spark) at Meta from a a few hundred a day to tens of thousands.

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@hobdaydesign I totally sympathise and think that’s probably the hardest part that most designers at meta had worked out how crack. Even in the environments you describe there will be opportunities and if there really aren’t you have to push to find them elsewhere because they are out there.

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@hobdaydesign I don’t think I can name a desinger I worked with at Meta who was lucky with a start up. They just did good work somewhere or several places over a decent few years and applied with that.

[Tom Goldsmith @TomWGoldsmith]

@hobdaydesign In a portfolio that you use to apply. You demonstrate the impact by doing the work, it doesn’t matter where you start and no one would expect big tech level impact if you’re not working in a company that size.

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@hobdaydesign Good work over a long period of time. If you can demonstrate the impact of your work, the quality of your thinking, and that you would work well with the team, you can get a job at Meta.

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An example of why you have to be careful of where you let people advertise. Random 3rd party app appearing above the actual Microsoft one I searched for. @AppleSupport

[Tom Goldsmith @TomWGoldsmith]

@olivierbouan They nearly always do compromise, well except Belgium and Northern Ireland, but that’s kinda my point, they compromise and it seems unlikely that the compromise is the kind of radical or aligned focus that you would have with a single party.

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The problem with proportional seat allocation, especially in a period of distress is that it creates political stagnation as no one has enough power to make substantial changes. FPTP has provided one party with substantial power and the ability to enact rapid change.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

I just can’t get past Labour winning 65% of seats off 34% of the vote.

Absolutely wild mismatch between the headline result and, well, everything else.

Britain is now a multi-party system, and first-past-the-post can’t cope.

[Tom Goldsmith @TomWGoldsmith]

@oledoteth Be impactful? I'm sure the overstaffed navy produced a lot of paperwork.

[Tom Goldsmith @TomWGoldsmith]

@root_ansh @bandanjot There are lots of ways to increase DAU, a PM might prioritise performance improvements, UI or doing a little of both. Engineer chooses how to do it, do we improve the DB, the way the UI loads etc.

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@AdewaleBepo @bandanjot What is the problem you are solving, what's the high level approach to solving it and what are the coherent set of actions your are going to take as a team to make it happen. All higher level than a task. PMs do often write PRDs at meta though, just not individual eng tasks.

[Tom Goldsmith @TomWGoldsmith]

@kunalmaithani @bandanjot Researchers do and engineers attend and ask questions. The engineers evaluate thier own sprints, and are held accountable to the goal. Individual sprints are generally something the team alone cares about, PMs and eng are responsible for the goals being hit overall.

[Tom Goldsmith @TomWGoldsmith]

@bandanjot @akashtiwari1007 @kbarber @iamfarry There are no rules that say Meta PMs can't write tickets. It's just unlikely to be your highest leverage option. But @bandanjot is correct about the dynamics (I was a PM at Meta for 5 years). I used to say my job was about explaining the why really well.

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@tkarlo @Cadmarch I suppose what I'm really saying is that it's optimistic to believe we will fix this by telling drivers off. Make the cycle lane bigger and more obvious, make cycling better in general.

[Tom Goldsmith @TomWGoldsmith]

@tkarlo @Cadmarch I agree that checking is essential. Being on the rear left corner of a car can make it easy for others to overlook you, which I've experienced firsthand with cyclists appearing after I started turning.

[Tom Goldsmith @TomWGoldsmith]

@hobdaydesign Depends how many people use the product and how profitable it is. 0.01% improvement in Facebook revenue is many times the salary of a designer.

[Tom Goldsmith @TomWGoldsmith]

@stevesi I have not seen not one that couldn't have been replaced with a form UI, but would loved to be proved wrong. By definition they do common tasks well, so does UI. They perform poorly with rare tasks, which is where you need humans. Chat isn't better than standard UIs.

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@tkarlo