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Principle 1:
Brute force works early on. Then it stops working. And once it stops working, it will never work again for the remainder of your PM career.
Early on, “just work hard” is a fine recipe for being more effective as a PM.
And then..... Scope enters the picture.
Advanced Time Management...
@shreyas on Twitter
you shouldn’t act surprised when people say they don’t know something. This applies to both technical things (“What?! I can’t believe you don’t know what the stack is!“) and non-technical things (“You don’t know who RMS is?!”). Feigning surprise has absolutely no social or educational benefit: When people feign surprise, it’s usually to make them feel better about themselves and others feel worse.
No feigning surprise
Julia Evans
I couldn’t believe I spent literal decades confused about people’s behaviors, and it only now occurred to me that I could get better at it. I had received SO many clues and data points my entire life, but my model. Never. Updated. I watched TV and film with new eyes now. Every [TV show was now a puzzle](https://x.com/DefenderOfBasic/status/1766819164352589852), the question was: why are the characters doing this? what will they do next? (I would literally pause and try to make this prediction and then keep going).
My enjoyment of film skyrocketed, and I became obsessed with what truths I could extract. For the first time in my life, I had strong opinions about what a character “should” have done. **I saw myself and the director on equal footing: both of us are looking out into the world and trying to capture a predictive model of people**.
Geoffrey Hinton on Developing Your Own Framework for Understanding Reality
defenderofthebasic.substack.com
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