Max Schoening
16 statements across 1 episodes · 8 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 2, 2026 by Max Schoening · across every show →
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May 2, 2026 positive
Schoening: Hands-on making and tinkering is the primary way to cultivate agency
“And the biggest through line I've found is making. I think if you tinker and if you make things, Then you are now on this treadmill of just creating And then you're like, oh, it's actually not that hard to learn how to make that chair in my office, or let me t…”
May 2, 2026 positive
Max Schoening: Writing PRDs is pointless when AI enables rough demos
“I think the first 10% of every project are now free. That's how I would describe it. So there is no point for most things to, for example, write a, I don't know. I, the thing is, has changed. I've never really been great at this, but like, there's no point in …”
May 2, 2026 positive
May 2, 2026
Schoening: Product taste is running a mental simulation of user reactions
“If I had to describe what taste actually means, it's you're able to run. This is such a nerdy way of describing it. You're able to run a virtual machine in your head. Where given an idea, you can predict for a certain in-group whether they're going to like it …”
May 2, 2026 neutral
Schoening: Modern knowledge work effectively functions as universal basic income
“My take is that we already have universal basic income. It's called knowledge work. And I don't exclude my job from it, but if you really look about at what do we actually need to live and like to be content, it is a lot less than we've built this hierarchy. A…”
May 2, 2026 negative
Schoening: Landing page writing deteriorates when creators try sounding clever
“And I found that when people make landing pages, first of all, their writing skills just like deteriorate immediately because they want to sound clever and like marketing speak comes out of their mouth. And I'm like, wait, that's not how you would explain it t…”
May 2, 2026 positive
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May 2, 2026 neutral
Schoening: True Ventures pulled a term sheet when Notion pivoted to docs
“The week that we were going to get a term sheet from True Ventures, Notion pivoted from website building to document collaboration, and so True Ventures was like, hey, sorry, we have a conflict, and we're like, yep, no, no worries.”
May 2, 2026 bearish
May 2, 2026 positive
May 2, 2026 positive
Schoening: High-taste designers build end-to-end side projects and tinker constantly
“The designers that I think have, at least in software design, high taste are the ones that both have side projects that they build, where they're responsible of the full thing end to end. And they're also always tinkering with some new app.”
May 2, 2026 neutral
Schoening: Notion's early editor was flawed, proving core value matters more than polish
“The first version of the Notion editor was terrible. Like there was like no, it was all blocks. You couldn't even select between two blocks, but it turns out it didn't matter. And so I think that is like just working diligently on the wrong thing for way too l…”
May 2, 2026 positive
May 2, 2026 positive
May 2, 2026
Schoening: Big orgs evaluate products as creators rather than users
“And then the other thing that I find happens very frequently in larger organizations is that people sort of turn off the brain when they're reviewing their own products from a, I'm a user, is this a good experience? And they're more like, I'm a employee of thi…”