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

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There are probably I call them techno utopians. who would say feed all data to the algorithm given 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 us.

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 when you are working on Algorithmic heavy products. Your job is figuring out.

what the algorithm should be responsible for, what people are responsible for, and the framework for making decisions. Yeah. Welcome to Lenny's podcast. I'm Pleny, and my goal here is to help you get better at the craft of building and growing products. Today my guest is Adriel Frederick.

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