Join us for happy hour in your sweatpants! This episode is a special one: our first interview. And what an interview to kick things off with one of our favorite people, Seth Hodgson! Seth is someone we’ve learned a lot from, and we’re looking forward to sharing what we’ve learned from him, with all of you! 🎉
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✍🏾 Show Notes
3:12 Seth’s early career milestones
10:43 Seth’s current career
The Art of Product Management 👩🏻🎨
13:13 What product management done well looks like
19:42 Things PMs do that drive Seth crazy
25:39 The skills of successful PM and PM-led teams
Experimentation 🧪
36:25 A Seth-style primer on experimentation
43:59 When to use Bayesian inference vs Frequentist (Null Hypothesis)
50:18 Common pitfalls of experimentation & product management
56:34 What is MDE and why you should care
1:00:56 Advice & resources for PMs starting out with experimentation
Instrumentation
1:04:16 Seth’s primer on instrumentation
1:11:07 What the hell is Event Storming & when is it useful
1:20:27 Common pitfalls of self-service analysis tools
1:24:14 Seth’s parting thoughts about metrics & just being a cool human PM
Resources referenced in this episode
Find Seth on LinkedIn!
MDE Calculator: https://www.evanmiller.org/ab-testing/sample-size.html
Seth’s book reco for PMs starting out with Experimentation: Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments
Seth references Ray Dalio’s: Principles in his parting thoughts on metrics
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