Twitter's ex-Head of Product on Elon, consumer products, culture, more

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.

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

You need a special type of person to be able to both operate within the existing structure and change the structure, to know when to use the system and to know when to fuck the system.

You need to staff projects with the team of people that are well equipped from a skillset standpoint, but more importantly have an obsession with the idea they want to pursue.

The best cheat codes for getting better at building products is just being a voracious user of products.

I might flame out completely, but hell if I don't try.

We wanted to change the lack of ambition, the lack of creativity, the lack of customers feeling that the product had changed at all.