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From a friend who joined a fast-growth, later-stage startup: "I was wondering why no one is doing PRDs here. Then I realized that the Head of Product and most PMs are 25-year-olds who don't have the attention span to *read* even a 1-page doc. You lose them after 3 bullet points."
+1, can confirm - even for larger companies am very ambivalent about the *absolute* necessity of work docs / PRDs but genuinely one of the biggest bummers of the fried-attention-span era is that getting completely absorbed in a long book for an afternoon is one of the best feelings ever, and whole demographics are being conditioned out of it
From a friend who joined a fast-growth, later-stage startup: "I was wondering why no one is doing PRDs here. Then I realized that the Head of Product and most PMs are 25-year-olds who don't have the attention span to *read* even a 1-page doc. You lose them after 3 bullet points."
Good point by @DynamicWebPaige how even outside of work / freetime activities are probably just not involving that much reading of longform. A generational gap building up?
+1, can confirm - even for larger companies am very ambivalent about the *absolute* necessity of work docs / PRDs but genuinely one of the biggest bummers of the fried-attention-span era is that getting completely absorbed in a long book for an afternoon is one of the best feelings ever, and whole demographics are being conditioned out of it
Well, this is disturbing on so many levels.
From a friend who joined a fast-growth, later-stage startup: "I was wondering why no one is doing PRDs here. Then I realized that the Head of Product and most PMs are 25-year-olds who don't have the attention span to *read* even a 1-page doc. You lose them after 3 bullet points."