Opening
Mayur Kamat (00:00:00): My, probably, most spectacular failure was, I was the first PM on Hangouts. We had thousands of people working for me. We had entire power of Google. We had Larry literally sitting with us saying we can do anything we want Chrome to do and we still didn't manage to build a great messaging product. The main learnings from that is, don't take on projects that are going to be six months, a year, because you just generally don't have control over the macro....
The opener starts with biography before advice. That order makes the guest legible as a person before the listener extracts tactics.
Low-ego framing
My, probably, most spectacular failure was, I was the first PM on Hangouts. We had thousands of people working for me. We had entire power of Google. We had Larry literally sitting with us saying...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Accept praise cleanly
Lenny Rachitsky (00:04:49): Mayur, thank you so much for being here, and welcome to the podcast. Mayur Kamat (00:04:56): Thank you. This is super exciting....
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Low-ego framing
Lenny Rachitsky (00:35:37): And so, optimize for the...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Name strength directly
faster you will grow. The second piece generally is, you need to optimize for what you're great at. Now having two kids, I'm fairly in the fact that your strengths get defined very, very early, right? I'm looking at...
Says the strength directly to the guest, not only about them.
Accept praise cleanly
Lenny Rachitsky (01:37:22): There we go. Mayur, thank you so much for being here. Mayur Kamat (01:37:26): Thank you. Thank you, Lenny, and thank you everyone. Lenny...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.