Product, engineering, and design tips. By @lorynchen and @hackbyrd

San Francisco Bay Area
Joined October 2019
A problem well stated is a problem half solved 💡
Keep calm and ask questions
There’s no perfect world when it comes to building product. It’s always about finding the right balance of 3 things: ✅ What’s good for the user ✅ What’s technically feasible ✅ What makes money
Product thinking and strategy is a must if you want to excel in building things. But what exactly is it? 👇🏻(1/3)
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It’s understanding business objectives, user goals, success criteria (quant and qual data metrics), and monetization strategy. (2/3)
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The WHY in what you’re doing. More to come on this 😉 (3/3)
Digital products shouldn’t require us to think like computers. It should work the way we humans work. Not the other way around.
It cost Netflix $21 million to make Squid Game. But it has generated $891 million in impact value - a measure Netflix uses to measure individual show performance
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87 million people have also finished the series since it's debut on September 17. This is definitely the platform's biggest hit yet.
Sweet new updates 🔥🔥love the figma team
Today we’re announcing six new ways to jam in FigJam, including… 💥Plugins ⚙️ Widgets ✨Templates 🔸New shapes </> Code blocks 👋Open sessions Join us live today at 8am PT to hear all about these new features from @rogie, @brsabel, and @eymlin. bit.ly/FigJamYouTube
The smartest people ask for help.
A good engineer knows best practices. But a great engineer knows when to break best practices.