Productivity YouTube is filled with breathless videos about optimizing systems and squeezing every ounce of speed out of your common habits. But does all of this efficiency really end up improving the quality of the most important things you produce? In this episode, Cal takes a deeper look at the different ways that productivity systems and tools can help y ... Show More
Jan 2023
What differentiates the highest-performing product teams | John Cutler (Amplitude, The Beautiful Mess)
<p>John Cutler writes the popular and beloved product newsletter The Beautiful Mess. For many years, he was a Product Evangelist at Amplitude, which led him to meeting and working with a large number of product teams around the world. Through this role, he gained unique insight i ... Show More
1h 40m
Jan 2023
Leveraging mentors to uplevel your career | Jules Walter (YouTube, Slack)
<p>Jules Walter is a product leader at YouTube and co-founder of both the Black Product Managers Network and Codepath.org. Previously, he led monetization and mobile growth teams at Slack. He’s also a very well-known leader in the broader product community. In today’s episode, we ... Show More
1h 10m
Sep 2023
673: Getting Hired, Interviewing, and Why Recruiters Suck with Taylor Desseyn
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Taylor Desseyn about his work as a job recruiter, how hiring has changed over the last few years, what soft and tech skills developers need, what not to do when applying, and how AI is affecting the hiring process.
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56m 18s
May 2023
Lessons on building product sense, navigating AI, optimizing the first mile, and making it through the messy middle | Scott Belsky (Adobe, Behance)
<p>Brought to you by <strong>Braintrust</strong>—For when you needed talent, yesterday | <strong>Eppo</strong>—Run reliable, impactful experiments | <strong>Rows</strong>—The spreadsheet where data comes to life</p><p>—</p><p><strong>Scott Belsky</strong> is an entrepreneur, auth ... Show More
1h 2m
Jun 2020
E1077: “Alchemy” Author Rory Sutherland on the Darwinian approach to business, analyzing outliers, why eccentric CEOs have a psychological advantage with customers & more!
1:00 Jason intros "Alchemy" author Rory Sutherland<br />
3:45 Architecture is the cheapest way to buy art<br />
6:01 How Rory is dealing with quarantine, why he prefers working from home, and will businesses be more efficient post-COVID?<br />
14:12 What is Rory's job, why you ... Show More
2h 19m
Oct 2022
Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Facebook)
<p>Adriel Frederick is VP of Product Management at Reddit X, where he helps incubate and scale new products. He is a former Product Lead at Facebook, as well as a former PM and Director of Product at Lyft. In today’s episode, we focus on what it takes to become a better product l ... Show More
1h 7m