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Nov 24
Ep. 380: ChatGPT is Not Alive!
<p>There has been a lot of loose talk online recently about the capabilities of existing AI tools. In this episode, Cal reacts to a specific recent clip from the Joe Rogan podcast in which the guest argues that language models are like a child’s brain, and may already be consciou ... Show More
1h 18m
Nov 17
Ep. 379: The Flexibility Myth
<p>When companies began instituting return-to-office plans after the pandemic, a disproportionate number of women chose instead to leave the workforce. Why? The obvious answer is that they wanted the flexibility of remote work. But in this episode, Cal draws on a recent New York ... Show More
1h 55m
Nov 10
Ep. 378: The Lost Art of Long Thinking
<p>We often talk on this show about how digital devices undermine our ability to consume more complicated and meaningful ideas. But what about our ability to <i>produce</i> such ideas from scratch? In this episode, Cal identifies a key productive skill – long thinking – that we’ ... Show More
1h 28m
Feb 2023
Behind the scenes of Calendly’s rapid growth | Annie Pearl (CPO)
1h 1m
Aug 2023
Velocity over everything: How Ramp became the fastest-growing SaaS startup of all time | Geoff Charles (VP of Product)
1h 16m
May 2023
Lessons on building product sense, navigating AI, optimizing the first mile, and making it through the messy middle | Scott Belsky (Adobe, Behance)
1h 2m
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
Oct 2022
Building better product roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, ProdPad)
<p>Janna Bastow is a former product manager, and currently the CEO and co-founder of ProdPad. She also co-founded Mind the Product, a community for PMs, which has grown to 300,000 members across the world. In today’s podcast, Janna discusses the limitations of timeline-based Gant ... Show More
53m 39s
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.
S ... Show More
56m 18s
Aug 2022
Persuasive communication and managing up | Wes Kao (Maven, Seth Godin, Section4)
<p>Wes Kao has worked with Seth Godin (where she co-founded the altMBA and served as executive director), David Perell on his Write of Passage course, Professor Scott Galloway on Section4, and <em>Morning Brew</em>. Currently, she’s the co-founder of Maven, a cohort-based learnin ... Show More
53m 8s
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
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
Sep 2022
Growth tactics, retention strategies, and becoming a better writer | Julian Shapiro (Demand Curve, Hyper, Webflow, TechCrunch)
<p>Julian Shapiro is widely known as the founder of Demand Curve, where he’s helped thousands of companies figure out their growth strategy. He also wrote the growth marketing column at TechCrunch, was CMO at Webflow, and even created an animation engine called Velocity that’s no ... Show More
59m 27s
In the first ever live episode of Deep Questions, recorded at People’s Book in Takoma Park, MD, Cal extracts a modern productivity lesson from the tale of Jane Austen’s frustrated ambitions, before taking questions from the audience. Below are the questions covered in today's episode (with their timestamps). Get your questions answered by Cal! Here’s the lin ... Show More
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