Paul Cowgill
@paulcowgill
lead PM, AI @ chainalysis via /nash acquisition.
prev: head of product @foundation
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“to build conviction in what is true, it helps to consider what else might be true.”
(arrived at after ~5 consecutive toddler ‘why?’s)
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most of the time, skipping familiar design patterns is a red flag.
but when the feature is truly novel, you have to give users a new mental model.
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the "hide whitespace" setting is so useful for github PR reviews, but for some reason it's so buried in their UI
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you should be able to open an svg file with figma
(instead of opening figma, then importing an svg file)
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now that it’s so easy for ai to make apps:
personalized micro-experiences will start to replace monolithic products
and product managers will start to act more like solutions engineers
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the physics of electric toothbrush meets noise-canceling airpods: fixation of a madman or justified paranoia?
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first principles > flawed experiments
there are two main ways to make decisions:
1. run experiments
2. reason from first principles
the reality: perfect experiments take too long, so you're left with flawed ones. both flawed experiments and first principles with bad assumptions can lead to wrong conclusions.
but her...
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