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Frameworks are tools, not gospel

Craft → Decision Making

Most of those companies need to think of frameworks appropriately. They see adopting the frameworks as the end goal...frameworks are more like a job aid. They're more like a learning tool.

John CutlerWhat differentiates the highest-performing product teams
Supporting

Every framework at its limit is followed to such a religious extent it's just unhelpful. You need to have nuance in how you leverage these frameworks.

Kayvon BeykpourTwitter's ex-Head of Product on Elon, consumer products, culture, more
Supporting

Sometimes it's just good old-fashioned judgment and product taste.

Kayvon BeykpourTwitter's ex-Head of Product on Elon, consumer products, culture, more
Supporting

When's the last time you used your brain versus followed a process someone else designed at your company? Because I want the former, not the latter.

Casey WintersHow to sell your ideas and rise within your company
Supporting

My favorite interview question of all time is to ask people to describe a best practice that they learned in their career and then ask them to tell me a situation where that best practice would not be applicable. Most people can't do it.

Eric RiesReflections on a movement