Ebi (A.B.) Atawodi

“I don't optimize for being liked to be very, and it sounds very harsh. I do not believe in being liked. That's AB. I believe in being loved. Right. And that's a very, very different thing.”

“Clarity comes when you write. And so I made them write two page documents. I will let you go up to four maybe, but like two page documents with insights. Your strategy, or I use the word approach sometimes, and then the big rocks.”

“And we built that product. It did not exactly in that way, but we built that product. Sorry for another day, but like, or maybe later, but that's the story. It took four years to build it, but that image got people so excited about, oh, it's possible.”

“The tactical thing that I almost make every PM on my team do, I call it top 10 things you should know. It's a living document. So in my org right now, you know, I've got quite a number of PMs and for each of those PMs in this living Google doc, it's like go sl…”

“If I could put all the research into BARD or ChatGPT, and it could spit out a PRD, Then you haven't done your job.”

“And that will be a living document. Comments. Open for comments, right? No edit. Not view only. Comments. Because you want anyone to leave comments out there and just feel they have a say. You don't have to respond to all of them. You don't have to resolve all…”

“Infrastructure is the product. Period. Like, I, people are like, oh, tech debt. I'm like, yeah, it's the product debt. I cannot build a skyscraper on a shaky foundation. So it is your problem, too. It's not for the engineer to, like, be barging on the door abo…”

“Do you know your engineering manager's birthday? It's the day they showed up in the world. It's the most important day for them. It's the day they showed up in the world in the world. Do you know their birthday? Do you know their work anniversary? Do you know …”