Noah Weiss

6 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 23, 2023 by Noah Weiss · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Jul 23, 2023 positive
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Weiss: Adding user clicks can often improve non-transactional software UX
“There's a saying we also have, which is more clicks can often be okay. You know, you often have in, you know, optimization, you know, experimentation circles, like, oh, every click, remove it. But I actually think in a lot of software when it's not transaction…”
Noah Weiss Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 19:04 The 10 traits of great PMs, AI, and Slack’s approach to product | Noah Weiss (Slack, Google)
Jul 23, 2023
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Weiss: Incubating product teams must be exempt from quarterly reviews
“And I think when we have those teams, I think it's important to just give them space to run, to give them kind of a gel free card for maybe the normal process of, you know, okay, our planning quarterly reviews and make it feel something that is like the pace o…”
Noah Weiss Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 40:14 The 10 traits of great PMs, AI, and Slack’s approach to product | Noah Weiss (Slack, Google)
Jul 23, 2023 positive
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Weiss: Slack organizes AI development using central infrastructure and prototyping pods
“We have a kind of central machine learning and search team, but there's a lot of people have expertise in this field to build infrastructure that everybody can use. And what we've done is Because the space is evolving so quickly, like literally every month, li…”
Noah Weiss Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 25:30 The 10 traits of great PMs, AI, and Slack’s approach to product | Noah Weiss (Slack, Google)
Jul 23, 2023 positive
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Noah Weiss: Prototyping real software beats static design mocks
“By far the biggest thing, which is more of a cultural shift is that we stopped spending so many cycles on design explorations of like static mocks or walkthroughs and said, how quickly can we get into prototyping the path in real software? Even if it's messy a…”
Noah Weiss Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 1:22:39 The 10 traits of great PMs, AI, and Slack’s approach to product | Noah Weiss (Slack, Google)
Jul 23, 2023 negative
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Weiss: Software creators' 'owner's delusion' prevents building simple products
“Often, actually, that kind of owner's delusion that someone else will care as much about the software that you built as you do prevents you from actually making something that's simple, comprehensible, understandable”
Noah Weiss Jul 23, 2023 ▶ 18:32 The 10 traits of great PMs, AI, and Slack’s approach to product | Noah Weiss (Slack, Google)
Nov 29, 2023 positive
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Weiss: Asking candidates for their 'unfair secrets' yields practical operational insights.
“If I say unfair or secret, I usually mean, like, not something that you probably read on, like, a medium, but like, what did you learn? How did you learn it? And how does it work? And how do you apply it? You also just get amazing, interesting, like, bits of i…”
Noah Weiss Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 12:57 My favorite interview questions from 100+ guests
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