Tim O’Brien 🌼

Today is the last day to get the ultra-cool, super-awesome & mega-exclusive Kickstarter edition of the game I made - Gudnak. I'm scared you're going to miss out so I'm providing you this hyperlink kickstarter.com/projects/cha…

I made a card game and that card game is on Kickstarter! It's just sitting there waiting for you to back it. Why are you being so mean and not backing it? kickstarter.com/projects/cha…

New rule. 1on1s now all start with - “Without referencing a meeting, what customer value did you create this week”

Listen to the research team

I've been on design Twitter for over a decade and PM Twitter for two years. Both seem very convinced they are doing something remarkable that the other could not possibly understand. But they also attend 90% of the same meetings? Shouldn't y'all be besties

Life in tech would be easier if we admitted that we're just arguing over who gets to tell the engineers what to do

Everyone in your org needs to play the same game - tradeoff of investment for impact. Teams that only measure impact clog up the system with work that's over optimized for how great it could be. Teams that only measure investment are just doing things blindly because they are easy or "because we have to". Most 'politics' I see happen because these are allowed exist

Hibachi has a way of solving my problems

What’s the most absurd thing you’ve written in a product spec as a test to see if anyone reads it?

Commuting to a co-working space today just to catch up on podcasts

When folks that report to you stop feeling comfortable taking up your time because you are “too busy ” is when you have too many direct reports

A slack app that tells you how many people have starred your direct messages

What is product ops? Wrong answers only but also the right answer because I’m genuinely confused

BDRs should take lessons from 4 year olds in persistence

It would be healthy to rename the product team to customer success

I’m about to onboard a new PM what should I do

All these AI novices have only doubled or tripled their output using ChatGPT but I've at least 50x'd mine. Venmo me some money and I'll show you how I promise this isn't a scam

I liked the part of the internet history when everyone was making Uber for X

When a team asks for feedback on content/designs etc that are meant for the customer, shouldn’t they be in charge of asking the customer themselves? What are review meetings for

I’m doing a new @soylent type diet but it’s just PB&Js hoping I don’t die. So far I feel like i’ve reinvented food