Product Director, Analytical & Insights Platform

Joined August 2009
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Just completed Mastering World-class Product Sense Course in practice course - maven.com/shreyas-doshi/prod… Quite an intense course. Mindblown. My LLM got a step up boost with this training. Highly recommend all passionate product folks to join this.
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sharing my experience in building cotinuously improving Agents - srinatar.substack.com/p/how-…

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Anything government touches becomes expensive and lousy return for taxpayer investments
Brad, a 5% tax on Elon's trillion net worth would literally pay for free college and trade school for every American. And with the market's growth, he still would be worth over a trillion dollars! You don't think that's worth it?
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5% of $1.2T is $60b. 8m students in BA/BS programs on average pay over $20k/yr, or ~$160b/yr for BA/BS degrees only. That tax could not cover even half of only US bachelor degree costs for just 1 year, excluding grad, ass., or trade degrees totaling another ~10m students. nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/i… bestcolleges.com/research/colle…
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Posted this today - Fluent and wrong look exactly the same - open.substack.com/pub/srinat…

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When i heard New York govt is doing grocery stores , i had a facepalm moment . People who grew in capitalism and haven’t experienced socialism believe they can do better only to realize years later that it just doesn’t work. This post gives a good read on why!
Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital. Cette phrase change tout. L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ? Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible. Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur. Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé. Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire. L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants. Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution. Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain. Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée. Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien. La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose. Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins. Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires. La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.
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The only Skill you need is Obra/superpowers. The brainstorming skill is good to give you a good step ahead.
Are there good human-curated skill repos for design, coding, product, etc that's not "here's 100 skills you separate the slop yourself"
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The Europoors protecting the Strait of Hormuz:
BREAKING: Merz, Starmer, Macron and Meloni issue joint announcement in Paris saying they’re sending a naval mission to the Hormuz Strait to protect freedom of navigation 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇫🇷🇮🇹
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Macron, Starmer, and Meloni opening the Strait of Hormuz 👇
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Amen .
Replying to @Nkemka8
the bookmark graveyard is intense
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I've listened to every episode of the @tferriss show. And some of my favorites are when Tim interviews prolific writers, diving into their creative process to improve his own. If you are looking to build a writing habit, these 10 episodes are a must-listen: ✍🏼🎧👇🏼
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I bet the next generation of growth will be when companies bundle their products with API and x402 (Agentic Payments) so Agents can seamlessly upgrade from freemium to paid tiers
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Sriram Natarajan retweeted
A CEO from one of our portfolio companies shared this with their team. I’m re-sharing it with their permission, because it resonated and reflects what all founders and CEOs should be communicating. -- We are living through a period of compounding change. And in moments like this, the biggest risk is no longer making the wrong decision. It is moving too slowly while the world moves around you. There are two paths. We can play defense: - Protect what we have - Optimize what works - Wait for clarity It feels safe. It isn’t. Or we can play offense: - Learn faster than the environment changes - Use new tools to solve old problems in better ways - And create entirely new strategies and businesses That’s where the opportunity is. Challenge yourself to do things faster and better than you have ever attempted. Stay uncomfortable. Stay on the front foot.
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Someone at work observed that the only product sense that will be worth evaluating PMs in future will be their imagination skills
The gap between "I can build this" and "this is worth building" has never been wider. AI closed the first one completely. The second one is still yours. Speed has never been cheaper. Imagination has never mattered more.
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My learning - after shipping several new features with AI Agents and a larger team , smaller teams are a must to be productive in this Agentic world . Yes , Companies and engineers are NOT prepared for this change
For twenty years, software companies raced to hire more engineers. The constraint was velocity. AI breaks that model. The constraint now is knowing what to build. That's a harder problem, and most teams haven't adjusted to it yet.
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tbh thats the point tho. if using a command line tool feels like "work" you probably shouldnt be the one specifying what engineers build
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Wat? I live there including analyzing my customer conversations . It has made me 10x more productive
OH “Claude Code is too much work for product managers.”
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It is interesting . I organically discovered a similar experience . I learned that when i use OpenClaw and we both brainstorm over a series of conversations including user journey . User experience , product trade offs this translates to a great zero shot MVP
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I was just speaking with @thesmitpatel and as I was describing the process of showing someone the OpenClaw bots in a Slack channel, he replied with “that sounds like pair prompting, never heard of that before.” So there you have it, pair prompting is pair programming for everyone.
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I have seen this movie before .
zohran mamdani gave out $35 per hour to shovel snow to any person, so naturally each side walk intersection is now being shoveled by like 7 ppl. this is exactly how the government operates: without thinking about any second order affects & also because spending other ppl’s money (tax) is super duper easy. show me the incentives & i will show you the outcome.
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this made my day!
When the TV Turns Off but the Dance Party Isn’t Over 🐶🤣
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I have started using Claude Code for making presentations and slides and have been quite happy with it .
I think one of the most interesting unlocks I've been using over the last 6-8 months has been the combo of ChatGPT Pro and Gamma. ChatGPT Pro does a pretty amazing job and doing research and building presentations. But...the design of the presentations it makes, yikes, bad, like crazy bad. At first I didn't really get Gamma, like who needs another presentation builder? But then I took the weird looking presentations ChatGPT made, imported them into Gamma, and with a single prompt had a nice, polished presentation. I still see people struggling a lot trying to get ChatGPT and Claude to make nice presentations. They aren't there yet, but when you connect what they are good at, with what Gamma is good at, it's so damn good 🤌 I haven't been great at remembering to write articles on X but feel like this could be a good article in the future...but I just wanted to put this out there first because it's been a super interesting one for me.
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