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Shreyas Doshi

08/25/22

@ Lenny's Podcast

High agency is about finding a way to get what you want without waiting for conditions to be perfect or blaming circumstances.

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The art of product management | Shreyas Doshi (Stripe, Twitter, Google, Yahoo)

@ Lenny's Podcast

The art of product management | Shreyas Doshi (Stripe, Twitter, Google, Yahoo)

08/25/22

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As product managers, we constantly face adverse conditions like limited resources and customer problems, making high agency an essential trait.

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High agency PMs take ownership, creatively execute through challenges, and demonstrate resilience, which differentiates them in their impact.

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Using an agent is beneficial when you can't enumerate all possible situations, allowing the model to navigate unknown scenarios using its own intuition.

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Getting what you want involves a combination of hard work, consistency, and luck, along with a comfort with rejection, as ambition often leads to more rejections.

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Kevin Weil

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High agency and comfort with ambiguity are essential traits for product managers at OpenAI. We look for people who will see a problem and go do it without waiting for others.

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Lori Gottlieb

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People often struggle to change because they feel they lack agency; recognizing your ability to choose your responses is key to personal growth.

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We believe agency is the most undervalued skill in the AI era, as it empowers individuals to build and innovate rather than just follow predefined paths.

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Awareness of what you truly want at any given time is crucial; when you want something, you'll act on it with full capability.

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It's important to foster agency in children, allowing them to maintain their natural willfulness rather than conforming to overly domesticating influences.