Question 1

What are the key takeaways from Josh Miller's episode on Lenny's Podcast?

Accepted Answer

1. Optimize for how your product makes people feel rather than purely for metrics -- feelings like joy, speed, and focus often correlate with the metrics you care about anyway. 2. Hire for heartfelt intensity: people who show up with fire in their belly and something to prove will do remarkable work when given an ambitious prompt and the freedom to execute. 3. Adopt a 'assume you don't know' mindset that biases toward action -- even domain experts should approach new problems with beginner's mind and start prototyping immediately. 4. Treat your team as your product: celebrate people publicly, hire radically different archetypes, and view every new hire as a product launch worth announcing to the world. 5. Give teams and features new names to shed preconceived notions and force first-principles thinking about what you are actually trying to accomplish.

Question 2

What does Josh Miller say about product-philosophy and user-experience?

Accepted Answer

"What we do at The Browser Company is we talk about optimizing feelings. How do we want to make someone feel on the other end of our software? Do we want to make them feel joy? Do we want to make them feel fast? Do we want to make them feel organized? Do we want to make them feel focused? What is the feeling we are trying to evoke in whatever we're doing on a specific project, or a specific feature, or a specific piece of storytelling content?" - Josh Miller "We want people that show up to our company with some fire in their belly, something that they are out to do. And for each person it's a little bit different. For some people it may be UI Craft details. For other people, it may be achieving double the performance with a quarter of the engineering headcount. Everyone has something, but they show up with this heartfelt intensity. And I think even relative to everything else, I'm going to say, that's it." - Josh Miller "Our second value is assume you don't know. And the value is, even if you're a subject matter expert. We have someone in our company that literally built the first version of Chrome and ran it for 16 years. But he more than anyone embodies this beginner's mind of, 'I have no idea how this should work or what will happen.' And the follow up to that value is, 'So we got to get going.'" - Josh Miller

Question 3

What are Josh Miller's views on product-philosophy, user-experience, design?

Accepted Answer

Josh Miller: "What we do at The Browser Company is we talk about optimizing feelings. How do we want to make someone feel on the other end of our software? Do we want to make them feel joy? Do we want to make them feel fast? Do we want to make them feel organized? Do we want to make them feel focused? What is the feeling we are trying to evoke in whatever we're doing on a specific project, or a specific feature, or a specific piece of storytelling content?"

Josh Miller

Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)

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Josh Miller

Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)

Josh Miller

Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)

TRANSCRIPT

Josh Miller

Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)