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It's going to make total sense in hindsight.
Yeah, predicting is a lot harder than people think it is.
Yeah, I think for us on the product side, like I said, it's very simple.
You probably only have one good idea in your whole product.
get the user to experience that as fast as possible it sounds so easy but if you go try every single product out there you will see a million accidental steps they introduced from the user hearing about your product to like seeing the value in it very hard to keep that minimal very hard to like not let that creep back in it's a constant thing so we do this i do this thing where um like i have a command that like runs up a new docker container and runs open code
which lets me experience it the first time experience.
I do that like once every two weeks.
And I'm always catching stuff that we've messed up in that process by accident.
The job of product isn't to just receive a problem and ship the immediate solution.
It's to absorb all the problems and understand that there's one solution you can ship to fix 50 different problems, right?
That is difficult.
That takes experience.
That takes thinking.
That takes talking to users.
That takes talking to your team.
That takes understanding your code base.
A product is a way to abstract
a solution for like many different issues right that's always going to be hard and that is a skill that you can infinitely get get better at um i used to be horrible at it i'm okay at it now i probably got another few decades of getting better at it yeah that's what i'm focused on like how to build stuff that solve problems well and