I strongly prefer to work with people who are capable of taking both positions, it results in collectively deeper understanding of both problems and solutions.

3/3

what’s critical is they move between understanding (including testing) the unmet needs *and* creating/testing possible solutions;

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I believe, and have experienced, that it can be any combination (e.g. triad of product manager, product developer, product designer, etc. etc.) and

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Speaking as someone who worked in tech for two decades, if you work in tech and you do not care about whether thing you are making really works or not (to include what good or harm it actually does in the world), you are *not* a technologist. You are a pay pig.

the thing i keep coming back to is relationships are irreducibly costly to set up and maintain, like you can't have JIT relationships

I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.

I am sad that this paper isn't what it could be, and that the process of publishing it involved endless cutting, appeals, and a profound lack of transparency. I am also sad that it will probably not be easily findable or picked up by journalists. I think the findings are important.

In the end, the publication of our paper was delayed two months because the journal refused to publish a version of the abstract with our central finding in it, citing word limit, then post-acceptance editing policies, and finally (1) editorial concerns and (2) private comments from reviewers.

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