Tom Verrilli
8 things Tom uses or recommends, from 1 episode.
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What Tom uses or recommends most, ranked by how often and how strongly. Paid ads are left out.
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"I can sit and talk to Claude and understand roughly LOEs. I can sit there and go through and be like, it feels like there's some car crash of models that must be hitting new users as they open up the app, and you can literally just go through and be like, let's load up the feed and talk to me about the logic of who sees what in what order, and you can get answers really quickly."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"We use Hex Threads internally at Whatnot. I'm sure there are other comparable products, but I think it's almost hard to remember time as a PM before you had tooling like that, where you could genuinely start pulling very nuanced cohorts of data, grab an individual user where you've heard a report, actually understand exactly what this user did and saw, how many other users look like this, what the impact would be. You can build pretty meaningful sensitivity models or forecasts really, really quickly, which is incredibly powerful."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"Services New South Wales actually nailed it. Bizarre to me that I would ever come on a podcast and say, actually a government-run app in Australia, of all places, is it. But I was home recently and had to do all of my life admin, and it's incredible. You ever had that concept where you're like, I wish the government has all my data, but I wish there was just like one place where I could with one click get my driver's license renewed, transfer titles, and do all of the admin that slows you down in life?"
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"The most fun thing I bought recently — I'm not joking — is a live lobster. There's this wonderful seller who goes by e-fish-co who has a seafood store down on the dock in San Diego and every morning as the boats come in he literally goes out and livestreams all of the crates of seafood coming in off the boats and then he auctions them off live on Whatnot and ships next day to your door. I got a California spiny tail lobster shipped direct to my door courtesy of a live stream."
Recommends it · 1 episode
"The best book anyone's ever recommended to me to read, which I now recommend to others, is The Purpose Driven Church by a pastor called Rick Warren. Emmett Shear, the CEO at Twitch, used to basically make sure that people read it. It's this wild examination of why people emotionally invest in something and how to engineer emotional investment into it from a group of people. Definitely worth a read if you're in a community product of any form."
Recommends it · 1 episode
"If you're looking for kind of like fiction or fantasy, which is where I tend to go in the evening, Babel by R.F. Kuang."
All 8 of Tom's picks
- Claude Uses and recommends it "I can sit and talk to Claude and understand roughly LOEs. I can sit there and go through and be like, it feels like there's some car crash of models that must be hitting new users as they open up the app, and you can literally just go through and be like, let's load up the feed and talk to me about the logic of who sees what in what order, and you can get answers really quickly." +245 others
- Hex Uses and recommends it "We use Hex Threads internally at Whatnot. I'm sure there are other comparable products, but I think it's almost hard to remember time as a PM before you had tooling like that, where you could genuinely start pulling very nuanced cohorts of data, grab an individual user where you've heard a report, actually understand exactly what this user did and saw, how many other users look like this, what the impact would be. You can build pretty meaningful sensitivity models or forecasts really, really quickly, which is incredibly powerful." +1 other
- Services NSW Uses and recommends it "Services New South Wales actually nailed it. Bizarre to me that I would ever come on a podcast and say, actually a government-run app in Australia, of all places, is it. But I was home recently and had to do all of my life admin, and it's incredible. You ever had that concept where you're like, I wish the government has all my data, but I wish there was just like one place where I could with one click get my driver's license renewed, transfer titles, and do all of the admin that slows you down in life?" Only Tom
- Whatnot Uses and recommends it "The most fun thing I bought recently — I'm not joking — is a live lobster. There's this wonderful seller who goes by e-fish-co who has a seafood store down on the dock in San Diego and every morning as the boats come in he literally goes out and livestreams all of the crates of seafood coming in off the boats and then he auctions them off live on Whatnot and ships next day to your door. I got a California spiny tail lobster shipped direct to my door courtesy of a live stream." +7 others
- The Purpose Driven Church Recommends it "The best book anyone's ever recommended to me to read, which I now recommend to others, is The Purpose Driven Church by a pastor called Rick Warren. Emmett Shear, the CEO at Twitch, used to basically make sure that people read it. It's this wild examination of why people emotionally invest in something and how to engineer emotional investment into it from a group of people. Definitely worth a read if you're in a community product of any form." Only Tom
- Babel Recommends it "If you're looking for kind of like fiction or fantasy, which is where I tend to go in the evening, Babel by R.F. Kuang." Only Tom
- Star City Recommends it "Star City on Apple TV. If you liked For All Mankind, it's kind of like the flip of that, but it's the Soviet side. It's like watching The Americans and For All Mankind mixed together." Only Tom
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things Recommends it "Not to be clichéd, but The Hard Thing About Hard Things I still think is the best book written about product management — just from a breadth of things that you have to go through and try and do and screw up a lot." +3 others