Buzzwords, pseudoscience, gibberish and few actual content. All within a complete lack of structure, and slides with dense/long text, and a lot of irrelevant self-referencing noise.
- Want to improve your diet? ask a healthcare professional, not a product manager.
- Want to improve your sleep? ask a healthcare professional, not a product manager.
- Got carpal tunnel from typing? Total lifehack, that's so 10x. How about getting an ergonomist to assess your desk? You can get an assessment for free from your employer.
- Want to optimize meetings? Set an agenda. Make people optional if they're not required. Appoint a moderator that keeps the meeting on track. Write down the minutes of the meeting... If there's no agenda, no meeting.
- Use 3 monitors? why not 5. Or 10.
- Want to prototype an idea fast? Use paper. Use powerpoint. Use your goddamn imagination. Don't throw team members at it in an app unless you absolutely need to.
What is a great product manager? Start by managing a product to achieve a material, tangible and significant positive effect on an important product, understand how it happened, and make that success reproducible.
How to not be a great product manager? Do not try to understand why a product is successful. Just assign the credit to yourself.
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[ 6.7 ms ] story [ 24.7 ms ] threadI guess he would be Facebook head of product.
Does anyone have experience with doing their course and actually getting a job as Product Manager at a good company in San Francisco / Bay Area?
Buzzwords, pseudoscience, gibberish and few actual content. All within a complete lack of structure, and slides with dense/long text, and a lot of irrelevant self-referencing noise.
- Want to improve your diet? ask a healthcare professional, not a product manager.
- Want to improve your sleep? ask a healthcare professional, not a product manager.
- Got carpal tunnel from typing? Total lifehack, that's so 10x. How about getting an ergonomist to assess your desk? You can get an assessment for free from your employer.
- Want to optimize meetings? Set an agenda. Make people optional if they're not required. Appoint a moderator that keeps the meeting on track. Write down the minutes of the meeting... If there's no agenda, no meeting.
- Use 3 monitors? why not 5. Or 10.
- Want to prototype an idea fast? Use paper. Use powerpoint. Use your goddamn imagination. Don't throw team members at it in an app unless you absolutely need to.
What is a great product manager? Start by managing a product to achieve a material, tangible and significant positive effect on an important product, understand how it happened, and make that success reproducible.
How to not be a great product manager? Do not try to understand why a product is successful. Just assign the credit to yourself.