Alan Byrne, Mozilla’s Firefox extensions product leader, argues that effective product work relies on judgment rather than rigid frameworks, critiquing tools like RICE and MoSCoW for masking subjectivity. Drawing on his stints at QuickBooks and Twitter, he explains when lean PRDs add value—especially for complex, high‑risk systems—and how to keep them actionable. The conversation also covers aligning narratives across teams, avoiding metric‑driven gamification, and defining "good enough" to prevent over‑building.

The episode explores a new research paper that introduces the Organizational Bullshit Perception Scale (OBPS), a tool for quantifying employees' perceptions of corporate dishonesty and empty rhetoric. The authors differentiate corporate "bullshit" from lying, defining it as statements made without...