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A few days before Musk took over Twitter, Ashtyn and Anne talked about social media algorithms tend to make content that elicits strong negative reactions go viral. Will decentralized social media fix these problems? Or just give you more power of what to do with your data, but otherwise, the same old song? Listen to our thoughts we recorded before  (new) chaos broke out on the bird app.

This week we’re talking about calculating value of a feature idea and the metaverse. One of our listeners asked us to talk about how we think about calculating value, especially when having to make the case for a  feature to stakeholders. And, Ashtyn shares about a metaverse demo he  received which leads us to talk about what is the metaverse, who is  using it right now, how they are using it, and what is the time to value for the users.

This week, we dive into overreliance on frameworks in product interviews and Meta’s strategy for web3. How should PM interviews be run, and how does it help you find a “good” PM? Is Meta too ahead of its time in web3, or are some of their recent rollouts examples of reactionary features to the 2021 NFT craze?

Anne and Ashtyn discuss the Atlantic article that talks about Elon  Musk’s texts dispelling the “myth of the tech genius”, and what society  images a tech genius to be like. And we dive into what made the darlings of the early pandemic so successful, and why their success  wasn’t sustainable. 

This week we talk about the Ethereum merge and real stories from  situations where the companies we’ve worked at weren’t successful and  why. We talk about the situations, the company culture, interpersonal  dynamics, and the lessons we learned about why things didn’t work out in  those scenarios.

Anne and Ashtyn finally get back to answering community questions and also discuss a recent product crisis with NFT loan protocol BendDAO.  This week’s community question asks how to pitch new ideas to engineering managers and other ICs. In our conversation about BendDAO,  we discuss their liquidity crisis, how they got there, how they were saved, and talk about how they could have prevented it.