“Today, my guest is Jules Walter. Jules is a product leader at YouTube.”
Jules Walter
Jules is a product leader at YouTube. Before that, he spent 4 and 1/2 years at Slack, where he was their first growth PM
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Artifact Reverse-Engineering and Backstage Observation
Collect the best artifacts, reverse-engineer their questions, then go watch the sausage get made.
Engineering Honest Feedback
People withhold feedback because it's risky — your job is to make it safe and rewarding.
Outcome-Backwards Skill Acquisition
Pick an outcome that would prove you learned the skill, then work backwards to the experts.
Practice-Until-Your-Worst-Is-Good-Enough Interview Prep
Interviewing is the one skill with zero feedback — so run dozens of mocks in a small peer group.
The Fish-and-Water Strength Test
Your real strength is the thing others praise that you think is no big deal.
The One-Skill Six-Month Block
Go all in on one skill for 3-6 months: study one example a week, practise it an hour a day.
The Smallest-Ask Mentor Ladder
Never ask 'will you mentor me?' — ask a two-minute question, then earn the next rung.
Resources in their episodes
- Apple Podcasts
- Black Product Managers Network
- Cash App
- Connect
- GitHub
- Interpersonal Dynamics (Touchy Feely)
- Lenny's Podcast
- Lex Fridman Podcast
- Linear
- MasterClass
- Meta
- Minto Principle
- MIT
- Never Have I Ever
- Never Split the Difference
- Notion
- Pathways
- Retool
- Slack
- Spotify
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Vanta
- Vercel
- YouTube
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