Nan Yu
10 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 30, 2025 by Nan Yu · said 6 times in 3 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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Jan 30, 2025
Standard analytical PM frameworks miss the emotional pain driving customer requests
“And my goal is to feel bad in the same way that customers feel bad. Right. They come to us with a request. Hey, we want X. And it's like, there's something motivating it. And it's not, you can do the normal analytical thing and be like, ask five Y's and like, …”
Jan 30, 2025
Nan Yu: Flexible project target dates prevent false precision and miscommunication
“The thing that we did specifically to solve this was we, you know, on projects in linear, you can just specify of target date at whatever level of granularity you want. Right. You can say it's a December project. You can say it's a Q four project. You can say …”
Jan 30, 2025
Jan 30, 2025 positive
Nan Yu: High execution speed indicates craft mastery rather than sloppiness
“When they think about speed, the thing they over-index on is, is like rushing or being sloppy, and what they should be indexing on is being really competent. Or being like an expert. So if you look at if you look at people who are like at the pinnacle of their…”
Jan 30, 2025
Nan Yu: The optimal amount of anything is 'too much minus one'
“The correct amount is too much minus one. And I think this like kind of ties into like the try the extreme version of it of a thing where I don't know, like a stupid example, like how much pizza do you want to eat? It's like, well, five slices was too many. I …”
Jan 30, 2025
Linear tests every feature through tiered beta rings before full release
“We have a sort of gradually increasing sort of circle of users that use every single feature. So by the time it hits GA, by the time it gets released, it's been used by a lot of different users to that point, right? So the first circle is just internal users. …”
Jan 30, 2025
Jan 30, 2025 positive
Product teams should build workable prototypes within 10% of their time budgets
“Speed, what it really looks like is, you know, you have some rough time budget for how long you think something's gonna take, and by the time 10% of it has passed, you have a workable solution, right? It's not like, oh, at the halfway point, we have something …”
Jan 30, 2025
Software teams should set few deadlines but treat each as absolute P0
“The only way to make deadlines real is to take them so seriously that they are basically like a P zero problem. And like everything else has to not matter in comparison to the deadline, because that that's the only way you're going to be able to signal to the …”
Jan 30, 2025
Linear grounds product debates in specific, contactable users rather than hypothetical personas
“Not, not a hypothetical person, right? Not one that you made up, like, you know, Alice, Bob or whatever. It's like, no, I like, here's the first name, last name, here's their email. You can ask them. And I think that being able to tie it all the way back to re…”