Pick problems worth solving, not comfortable positions

Don't try to go learn something because you think it's worth learning. Find an actual problem that you care about and go try to solve it with that new thing.

I kept coming back to this problem. I'm like, 'Man, how is the world going to deal with this information quality issue of what we get on social media?' Wherever get it. I'm at this company where you can make a difference on this problem, why not go and try some crazy ideas and see if one of them might work?

For me, this project, I feel like I get to do community service with this project. I see my work as in service of the people and the community, and that's what motivates me. The only thing that I care about is delivering the outcome that the world finds helpful.

It's your job when you're in the interview process to figure out what that burning problem is. Put on your discovery hat and go figure out what is the actual job to be done of the hiring manager when they're bringing on a new PM onto their team.

There's this belief that everybody needs to be a founder. I think, in some ways, our industry would be much better off if there were fewer founders. There's an entire category of smart, creative, hardworking, talented, borderline visionary people who can raise that $2 million seed and go off and build some stupid company that's never going to go anywhere. That would be so much better off finding a team that needs their skillset and working on a problem that has a mathematical formula that's going to win on any metric.