Noah Weiss

The 10 traits of great PMs, how AI will impact your product, and Slack’s product development process | Noah Weiss (Slack, Foursquare, Google)

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Opening
Noah Weiss (00:00:00): We have this mental metaphor that we talk a lot about, getting to the next hill. The actual wording is "Take bigger boulder bets." I think teams can often get lost crawling up that hill, not realizing that there's a huge, incredibly beautiful range behind it where we've over time freighted new teams from scratch that incubated in a new area before the areas mature....

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Low-ego framing
AI will impact your product, and Slack’s product development process | Noah Weiss (Slack, Foursquare, Google)" date: "2023-07-23" type: "podcast" guest: "Noah Weiss" channel: "Lenny's Podcast"...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Lenny (00:01:38): Noah Weiss (00:04:25): Thank you for having me. I'm excited to finally get to join and been a longtime listener. Lenny (00:04:29): I feel the...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Ask with curiosity
't wait. Noah Weiss (00:25:11): Yes. Lenny (00:25:12): On that topic, how do you think about creating teams within Slack and AI specifically? Are you recommending each team think about how AI can make their...

Turns a moment that could become critique into a question about the guest's thinking.

Low-ego framing
way in reverse. I've been really excited that you're finally on the podcast. I don't know if you know this, but this is actually going to be the last podcast I'm recording before I go on pat leave. This is...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Lenny (01:25:04): Awesome. Noah, thank you so much for being here. Noah Weiss (01:25:06): Thank you so much for having me. Lenny (01:25:08): Bye everyone.

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.