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Hunter Walk (Product Management, YouTube) has a couple of great posts on Product Management. He links to this post by Ken Norton (now at Google) on hiring PMs. The post is pretty great, but I had doubts about one point. " I usually ask an interview candidate a series of logic questions to gauge intelligence. " I 've had quite a few interviews where you spend some time on logic questions/brain teaser-type thingies, and have developed doubts about the effectiveness of this. There are two reasons for this: quick on your feet is great, but not if you're going to get up and start running in the wrong direction!! I 've been lucky enough to get to hang around a lot of smart people (often at a respectable distance:)). I 've also been around a lot of people that sounded smart. There is a difference, and I think "quick on their feet" favors that latter. It favors confidence and polish, over thoughtfullness and thoroughness. It favors quick frameworks o...

Gates and Jobs gave a joint interview at the WSJ's D:All Things Digital conference. I haven't finished watching the entire interview yet, but its remarkable how complimentary they are of each other. The feel is almost like they're veterans reminiscing over a long-forgotten war they once had...kinda sweet. If you've seen Pirates of the Silicon Valley , it almost feels like this should be the end of the movie. As an aside, I was impressed by the range of videos available on the WSJ site, but even more so by the provider of the service: Brightcove . I can see why some people think that this will end up being the "enterprise YouTube", and it seems to be the provider of video services on so many sites that I visit. It's not even close right now though ( Compete graph below)