Adriel Frederick

Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Facebook)

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Opening
Adriel Frederick: There are probably, I call them techno utopians who would say, feed all data to the algorithm, give it an objective, and it will do the right thing. And I was like yeah, the reason that falls down is the algorithms don't understand long term effects often, nor do they understand how people might respond to it, nor do they understand your intent for the product, and I think it's really important for product managers to play that role. That is our job....

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Low-ego framing
are responsible for, and the framework for making decisions. Lenny: Welcome to Lenny's Podcast. I'm Lenny, and my goal here is to help you get better at the craft of building and growing...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
be useful to you? Adriel Frederick: Awesome. Before I jump into that, thank you for having me on here. It's just good to reflect about life and work for a little bit and hopefully share some...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Carry memory
what you've learned to work in that environment. So yeah, I just wanted to come back to that. Adriel Frederick: For sure. For sure. Lenny: So the main thing you said is just ops as a first order...

Returns to something said earlier, proving the conversation has memory.

Low-ego framing
ny: Yeah, it makes me think about a neural link and what Elon's trying to do, I don't know if this is how he thinks about it, but the [inaudible 00:39:56] guy described it as Elon's worried that AI will take...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Ending
they want to reach out, learn more, and then how can listeners be useful to you? Adriel Frederick: Awesome. Before I jump into that, thank you for having me on here. It's just good to reflect about life and work for a little bit and hopefully share some insightful stuff with the folks who listen to your podcast. So thanks for having me. You can find me on LinkedIn, Adriel Fredrick, there might be one other. Pretty sure I'm the only one. And then how can listeners be useful to me?...

The ending makes gratitude concrete, which turns warmth into checkable behavior.