BrandonWatson

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by BrandonWatson 7y ago
Sorry for the late reply. The template is more formatting than anything else. The core questions: 1) What is in this doc? What decision do we need to make? 2) Why is this important? 3) Who is the customer for this solution? 4) How have othe
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by BrandonWatson 7y ago
If you come prepared, it's not as bad as you think. Being stack ranked +you're not in the room for that) can lead to stress though. I would say my experiences at MSFT under Gates and Ballmer for stack ranking felt far more caprici
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by BrandonWatson 7y ago
Always appreciate the reminder. I'm answering questions at a high level and hoping to share the learning from my time at AMZN. Anything confidential will remain as such.
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by BrandonWatson 7y ago
Genuinely added value. I was firmly in the "NO" camp when I got to AMZN. Writing was something that people who didn't understand hustle did. :) What I found, over time, was that the exercise of writing forces critical thinkin
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by BrandonWatson 7y ago
I ran Kindle software Product Management for 3 years. Left in 2014 AMA about the memo process or OP1/OP2 process.
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On What We Value in and from Work(medium.com)
2 points by BrandonWatson 9y ago|0 comments
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by BrandonWatson 9y ago
Happiness = reality - expectations Remember that formula and you will be fine. It's not a case for lowering your expectations, but it does set a framework for approaching different endeavours. It forces you to ask the question, if this
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by BrandonWatson 10y ago
Thanks...That was helpful. ;) Have a look at my profile if you want to know what I have done. Driving with kids is what you do as a parent on spring break. As for the question, I was trying to discern if amzn was making the video conf funct
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by BrandonWatson 10y ago
If someone can figure out for me if adding support for webRTC VIDEO is viable, that would be amazing. I'm driving 6 hrs and can't research it.
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by BrandonWatson 10y ago
The phrase I love is "procrastination porn."
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by BrandonWatson 10y ago
I like some of his stuff. He has some good energy. The comments about unhealthy life habits are spot on. I am glad it works for him. It's a data set of one from which he is extracting a rule of law. And then shouts down haters. Which i
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Ask HN: Build 2017 roll call
1 points by BrandonWatson 10y ago|0 comments
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by BrandonWatson 10y ago
How is "utilizing time contributing to comments on a post like this on HN instead of working on your product" not on the list? :)
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by BrandonWatson 10y ago
Reading the responses here, I wonder how a revamped HN homepage would look like if there was a search bar at the top of the page. The user story for search has been solved. What hasn't been solved, it sounds like, is feature discoverab
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by BrandonWatson 10y ago
I'm calling it now...we are going to see a rise in the "uber for chat bot servicing" =)
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by BrandonWatson 11y ago
New terms added for the gaming engine they just released. You have to read the whole paragraph. Best. Terms. Ever. 57.10 Acceptable Use; Safety-Critical Systems. Your use of the Lumberyard Materials must comply with the AWS Acceptable Use P
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Amazon Attention to Detail in TOS(aws.amazon.com)
7 points by BrandonWatson 11y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Best holiday gift this year?
1 points by BrandonWatson 11y ago|0 comments
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by BrandonWatson 11y ago
Dating myself. I too was a Engineering and Wharton grad...20 years ago. Yeesh. I found my way into a Product Management internship in 1994 by luck and happenstance. The honest assessment of the recruiter was "you are too technical for
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by BrandonWatson 11y ago
What tool was used to build this? I've tried Aesop a while ago, but the integration with Wordpress on a selfhosted site wasn't for what I had hoped.
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by BrandonWatson 12y ago
The challenge with Seattle isn't the amount of rain. It's the amount of days of precipitation. It's the angst of not knowing what the weather will be, making planning difficult for some outdoor activities. It's that our
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Turning Points in Life(manyniches.com)
3 points by BrandonWatson 13y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Kindle Matchbook is live(amazon.com)
74 points by BrandonWatson 13y ago|73 comments
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by BrandonWatson 13y ago
Yes, in doing my research the cooling vest was one of the first items I looked at. The biggest problem for my target customer (triathletes and runners) is the weight (>4 lbs), the lack of mass security (vests tend to move around a bit),
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by BrandonWatson 13y ago
I am looking to identify a material or compound that can dissipate heat generated by the human body. I want to use this for an athletic textile application. Specifically a cooling element that is to be placed against the skin along the fore
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Ask HN: Any Chemistry hackers here?
3 points by BrandonWatson 13y ago|8 comments
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by BrandonWatson 14y ago
We had a business model. We knew when we would start charging. We were already testing pricing when the VC round was underway. We did not get the D&O. That was as much a legal representation screw up than my own failing. I was the CEO,
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by BrandonWatson 14y ago
You are absolutely correct about the photos. Explicit photos were going both ways on chats. We were working on a solution to that, and had licensed some pretty cool tech from a small firm in DC. re: the notion that _you_ would have known ab
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by BrandonWatson 14y ago
To pile on a little bit to what Erik shared here. There were several use cases that we could not have imagined when we set out on our path. First, there was a case where a high school girl was equipment manager of her school football team.
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by BrandonWatson 14y ago
Jason didn't get lucky. He's incredibly talented. We, as a team, failed. It happens. I would go to war with any of my co-founders again, no doubt.

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