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Danny Wu retweeted
Navigating "corporate speak" isn't easy.
Here's a helpful guide I put together:
"Let me check with my team" = No
"Possibly" = No
"On my roadmap" = Not happening
"This will be done in Q4" = This will be done in Q2 next year
"Disagree and commit" = I hate you
"Per my last email" = Try reading, for once in your life
"Challenging landscape" = We're going out of business, quickly
"Digital transformation" = We're going out of business, slowly
"Let's circle back" = We'll never speak of this again
"Take it offline" = We'll never speak of this again
"30,000 foot view" = I don't know what I'm saying
"Low hanging fruit" = Easy promotion
"Open up the kimono" = HR violation
"We use AI" = We don't use AI
"We use machine learning" = We don't use machine learning
"All hands on deck" = Let's actually try for once, please
Danny Wu retweeted
Introducing the @sequoia Gen AI Market Map!🌎 We’ve decided to map out this emerging frontier, thanks to all the contributions and feedback we’ve received.
This space is moving quickly – this map is a living document, so keep the suggestions coming! Who else should we include?
Danny Wu retweeted
When I hear complaints from an Eng Mgr that a senior product engineer has to just sit idle for a few days while waiting on a spec from the PM, I am interested in hearing what’s blocking the PM, but I am a lot more interested in diagnosing the team culture that led to the idleness
Danny Wu retweeted
On a team, the use of the word “product” as a synonym for “product management” or “product managers” correlates highly with trouble.
Example:
When an engineer deflects a UX-related question with “That’s a product question”, implying “Don't ask me. That is a question for the PM”.
Danny Wu retweeted
Moving your team from slides to long form writing is not just a process change. It is first and foremost a culture change.
A writing culture values comprehension over aesthetics, nuance over certainty, clarity over charisma, deliberation over impulse, and rigor over hierarchy.
Danny Wu retweeted
The faster we vaccinate, the quicker we prevent the virus from mutating to a version that existing vaccines DON’T treat.
So stop virtue signaling with these dumb vaccination criteria and start mass vaccination programs. NOW!!
Danny Wu retweeted
Attacks against Asian-Americans in New York City have soared since the pandemic began, terrifying many and stoking fears of targeted violence. The xenophobia is also compounded by the economic fallout of the pandemic and fears of the coronavirus.
nyti.ms/37Rf5xy
Danny Wu retweeted
Congratulations to @NASA on the successful landing of the SUV-Sized Perseverance Rover on planet Mars.
Among other things, it carries a drone helicopter — an engineering test of flight, maneuvering, & navigation in the rarified Martian atmosphere.
Danny Wu retweeted
1/2 #Scapegoating #Asian #immigrants has a long #history in #America. These posters fr campaign for the #ChineseExclusionAct 1882 include blaming #Chinatowns for #typhoid #smallpox. Nearly a 100 #Chinesecommunities across the #West were burned, looted, forced to move #stophate – at United States
Danny Wu retweeted
On attention to detail:
People who excel tend to obsess over the details.
People who struggle also tend to obsess over the details.
The difference is what details they focus on. Minutiae vs polish.
Most things don’t matter—but when it does, you want to get the details right.
Danny Wu retweeted
there isn't a lot of transparency or accountability in the vax rollout at federal/state/local level, but the US does have enough vax doses to effectively end the pandemic in 45-60 days. here's why, key metrics to observe, and a reminder on how we can do it...
Danny Wu retweeted
Today is my last day as a PM on WhatsApp Payments 💸
Thank you to @skasriel and @davidmarcus for creating this incredible team!
Wanted to share some of my learnings from building product in the fintech & payments space:
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Danny Wu retweeted
People who commute by bike have:
- a 52% lower risk of death from heart disease;
- a 46% lower risk of developing heart disease;
- a 40% lower risk of death from cancer
- a 45% lower risk of developing cancer
Via British study in @bmj_latest: bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j145…
Danny Wu retweeted
We build HEY the same way we built Basecamp - we followed our homegrown Shape Up process. We put the whole process in a free book for anyone to read. This is how we do product work —> basecamp.com/shapeup
Danny Wu retweeted
Historically, 99% of crypto projects are garbage run by unqualified idiots, delusional but below average founders or grifters... the 1% that are not, could change the world.
I’m waiting for that 1% to deliver their product so I can talk to their customers.
you got customers?