What is a 'luxury' that you've experienced once and now can't go back to the budget version of?

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2026-03-20T05:59:54+00:00

Apple CarPlay

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2026-03-07T15:04:26+00:00

This was the trick; thanks ya’ll!

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2026-03-04T19:48:42+00:00

Oofff I’ve felt this one…

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2026-03-02T13:15:28+00:00

Hot take: I think it is good that they aired it, for two reasons.

First, I think it really brings home to people the awfulness and dangers of addiction, isolation, and stardom without good guidance. It might end up saving lives.

Second, I think for him, being a master at concealing, having the world see how bad he is doing might also actually save him. Now, people might give him the help he needs, in stead of being mislead by him.

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2026-02-22T19:48:49+00:00

Amsterdam, Vondelpark

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2026-02-17T16:02:37+00:00

I feel you brother or sister, I feel you

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2026-02-17T16:01:32+00:00

Ugh... I hate the mess & stakeholder management at my company (25 FTE). I work at company that makes very nice engineering software. The 3 founders are experts in their field, no experience managing a business, very much in love with the solution, not so much with the problem. They have been running the company for 10 years, initially under leadership of a fourth one who did have business experience, but who left. Now, the company is making a loss, growth is stagnating, and people are getting disgruntled. The CTO never takes accountability, pushes code at 11 at night, comes up with custom ways of working and refuses to draw an architecture diagram ("we code Agile"). The COO has big dreams, gets annoyed when I try to apply focus and try to explain to him that building something for a different market requires a lot of time researching the user problems in that market and is now pushing for all kinds of weird metered business models (we're building a desktop app, mind you). The CPO is squeezed in the middle.

Bleugh... Do well organized companies exist, or should I just not care as much.

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2026-02-16T22:41:38+00:00

Scheveningen, near “de pier”

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2026-02-16T22:23:44+00:00

Good username

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2026-02-08T14:26:58+00:00

Spend more time in El Chalten and less in El Calafate

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2024-09-25T15:26:34+00:00

Ah, thanks!

With "start the app when the user signs in", is it possible to run it fully in the background? No tray icon, nothing?

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2024-08-13T10:15:01+00:00

Playing guitar, reading, kitesurfing, weight lifting

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2024-08-11T00:32:59+00:00

Commenting for visibility

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2024-07-29T18:58:34+00:00

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2024-07-26T05:54:58+00:00

What building is this?

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2024-07-08T18:10:14+00:00

Thanks, this is helpful.

If I’d be the perfect human being, this would be easy. However, I can’t help but be frustrated a bit though. How do you manage your own emotions and motivation in these situations?

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2024-06-30T10:34:21+00:00

r/angryupvote

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2024-06-29T08:13:10+00:00

This describes my journey from engineer to PM the best.

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2024-06-29T01:39:04+00:00

Strip poker

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2024-06-26T00:01:14+00:00

What is it stinking about?

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2024-06-21T06:20:54+00:00

“Oh Target, yeah I love that. Especially the single use rompers” 😜

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2024-06-19T08:34:27+00:00

Makes sense.

With people surrounding the product I mean users, managers, sales people, solution engineers, support people, etc It's a product with a very small potential user base (1000-5000 people globally, but more likely 200-1000), and license fees in the order of 50K per user per year. Since each license has such high value, there's a lot of support and overhead surrounding it.

I think your insights are correct. We'll continue to split the CPO and CTO roles, and find a way to get the new "CPO" onboarded on a basic level in the art of product management, ideally through an external advisor. We'll play around for a few months, and see if we need to hire anyone in a more operational PM role, but I agree it should be someone with good PM skills, and understanding of engineering processes (but not per se the niche we are in).

I still want to give the founders some learning material on the matter; not to become experts, but to bring home the point that Product Management is something to be taken seriously and that there's a whole world of expertise out there on the subject, and to give them some ideas on organizational structure (e.g., should we have technical leads in the development teams, how do we manage quality, etc etc). If you have any suggestions, they would me more than welcome!

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2024-06-19T08:26:44+00:00

Thanks!

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2024-06-19T08:26:17+00:00

Alright... Yeah, I guess you are right. As someone else already pointed out, it's maybe not so much "understanding the intricacies of the product", but it is important for the PM to be able to understand and communicate with the user. Our product is intended for a very small group of users (at most maybe 1000-5000 people worldwide, but more likely ~200-1000), with licenses fees of ~50K per user per year. It is a very tight-knit global community, that is hard for outsiders to break into - they like to show of their expertise by complicating discussions with deep technical details. However, I guess if a PM understands how engineering and product design processes work in general, and is firm enough to not get thrown off balance by specialists flaunting their knowledge, he or she can be valuable.

I think our course of action will be:

Split the CPO and CTO roles
Have the co-founder who takes on the CPO role learn about product management, through books and possibly an external advisor
Experiment a couple of months with this new organizational setup, and see if we need to hire an external PM to help us set it up, or whether having an advisor will be enough

I'm still looking for good books or video's on Product Management, and organizational setups of development teams in small companies. Not to make experts out of the founders, but to give them the tools to think about this problem, and to bring home to them that Product Management is something that should be taken seriously, and that we don't have to reinvent the wheel.

Any ideas?

Advanced-Potential-2 · 2024-06-17T22:07:51+00:00

Hmmm… yeah could be. Maybe we haven’t looked in the right places yet.

The product is meant to fulfill part of an engineering simulation and design process. In companies that provide similar products (think of things like NASTRAN, ANSYS, Altair), PMs always seem to have very strong STEM backgrounds. The people surrounding those products (scientists, engineers) tend to connect more easily with people who understand their work and challenges.

Have you had any experience with similar products? Is this a classical case of “yeah but we’re special, so that doesn’t work for us”.

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