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What is the best way to judge the capability of an experienced product person?
Leadership
Shreyas Advising
Frameworks
Leadership
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Leadership
Hard truths
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Mental models
Not all problems need to be solved
Hard truths
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Leadership
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Learn to thrive in ambiguity
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Frameworks
Importance of instincts in hiring for senior roles
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Shreyas Advising
Shreyas Advising
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Only caring about impact may not be a good idea
Leadership
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Fitting in may require suboptimal career tradeoffs
Hard truths
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Pretty large portion of “I have imposter syndrome” statements from successful people is just virtue signaling
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Interesting discussions
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Understanding human behavior
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Shreyas Advising
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Shreyas Advising
Shreyas Advising
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Shreyas Advising
Career
Communication & Influence
How to overcome persistent struggle of getting something done
Clear thinking
Brilliant observation on envy
Clear thinking
Shreyas Advising
Hard truths
Communication & Influence
Shreyas Advising
Shreyas Advising
Shreyas Advising
Writing
Notes on Strategy
Leadership
Skills
Skills
Frameworks
Hard truths
Communication & Influence
Skills
Clear thinking
Hard truths
Skills
Leadership
Communication & Influence
How to build the creative muscle
Skills
Clear thinking
Miscellaneous
Career
Product Success
Org psychology
Shreyas Advising
Video recommendation: Apple
Shreyas Advising
Writing
Products
Products
Career
Skills
Interesting discussions
Product Success
Clear thinking
Interesting discussions
Shreyas Advising
Leadership
How to give blunt feedback
Skills
Management
Skills
Skills
On using company lists
Career
3 sweetest words in the English
Communication & Influence
Important idea to understand regd. marketplaces
Clear thinking
Skills
Skills
Management
Leadership
Product Success
Products
Management
Skills
Skills
Interesting discussions
PM
Shreyas Advising
Youtube content strateg vs Twitter/X content strategy
Writing
Products
Writing
Subscribed to YT
Communication & Influence
Products
Product Success
Interesting discussions
Products
Writing
Career
Skills
Product Success
Org psychology
Product Success
Management
Shreyas Advising
Communication & Influence
Interesting discussions
Products
Products
Management
How someone shares what makes them great is vilified than those who share generic statements
Hard truths
How bad products will be covered by GTM
Leadership
Product Success
Hard truths
Org psychology
Product Success
Clear thinking
Shreyas Advising
Clear thinking
Shreyas Advising
Products
Org psychology
How someone is out of touch with the reality of how good products are built
Skills
Clear thinking
Management
Clear thinking
Communication & Influence
Career
Leadership
Career
Hard truths
When smart people ask “how can I exactly do this?”
Clear thinking
Products
Question about writing style.
Writing
Hard truths
Interesting discussions
Leadership
Leadership
A good career advice
Career
Management
Shreyas’ note to self on writing on Twitter
Writing
Leadership
Re-ranking Shreyas’ favourite shows
Miscellaneous
Clear thinking
Career
Miscellaneous
How to devise strategy, with team involvement
Product Success
Stripe Connect’s strategy (which was prolly the 1st proper product strategy presented at Stripe)
Product Success
Communication & Influence
Why is it important to tell people that the project they are working is not the most important one
Org psychology
How PMs of Tier-1 companies struggle to understand this trade off
Org psychology
What does it mean if you are constantly complaining about the company
Hard truths
Clear thinking
Understanding Bezos’ 1-way door and 2-way door better
Clear thinking
Writing
Hard truths
Clear thinking
Product Success
Management
Communication & Influence
Miscellaneous
Communication & Influence
Management
Skills
Miscellaneous
Org psychology
Communication & Influence
Org psychology
Shreyas Advising
Clear thinking
Products
Org psychology
PM
Clear thinking
Interesting discussions
Clear thinking
Hard truths
Clear thinking
Difference between Google and Twitter
Org psychology
Hard truths
Management
Skills
Career
Shreyas Advising
Career
Creativity is needed to achieve PMF through different paths
Product Success
Career
Career
Shreyas Advising
Hiring
Miscellaneous
Clear thinking
Shreyas Advising
Output of a skilled team depends on the organisation more than the team itself
Org psychology
Product Success
Hard truths
Interesting discussions
How low agency people lie about having agency
Clear thinking
Clear thinking
Hard truths
Interesting discussions
Career
Product Success
Communication & Influence
Clear thinking
Need to put creativity to get the best of 2 options
Product Success
Hard truths
Shreyas Advising
Miscellaneous
PM
Management
Mental models
Hiring
Management
Miscellaneous
Org psychology
Product Success
Skills
Miscellaneous
Product Success
Org psychology
Management
Communication & Influence
Product Success
Hard truths
Leadership
Writing
Hard truths
Management
Communication & Influence
Org psychology
Communication & Influence
Management
Career
Products
Communication & Influence
Shreyas Advising
Career
Products
How perception of optics changes with time
Org psychology
Paradox of different types of meetings in mid to large size orgs
Management
Communication & Influence
Org psychology
Products
Product Success
Mental models
Miscellaneous
Products
Do you think this means that Elon is not going to kill the super follows feature?
Product Success
Management
How people tend to quickly label uncomfortable situations as toxic
Clear thinking
Why self promotion is important as a PM
Communication & Influence
Average product sense and legacy success without taste can harm new products, observed in growth-stage startups.
Leadership
Goal setting should be aggressive but not unrealistic
Leadership
Using chatGPT assisted tweet
Products
Asking SF about Substack notes instead of Super follower feature
Miscellaneous
Products
Trust by default vs Mistrust by Default
Clear thinking
Antithesis of stories: stories are fine as a communication tool, not great as a learning tool
Clear thinking
Asking SF: If he should keep the blue tick
Miscellaneous
Leaders at stripe & Twitter not using the executive coach slots because they think their problems are unique
Leadership
Bengaluru trees and weather are the best
Miscellaneous
Distinguish between plausible but bullshit product content
Hard truths
Took 15 years to understand and 5 mins to write a tweet on creativity in product sense
Skills
Simulation exercise
Miscellaneous
Random Question: Which health insurance to buy
Miscellaneous
Importance of delete comment feature on linkedin but not for Twitter
PM
It is extremely exhausting, if you are a Craftsperson or Visionary archetype through the years
Leadership
Need to focus on why you need to be good at what you do rather than selling what you do
Clear thinking
Simulation practise for only twitter verified accounts tweets in your “For you” feed. Need for second order thinking.
Skills
Why almost all companies fail in 0 → 1 products
Org psychology
Book snippet on man who cannot face the perils of life without believing comfortable myths
Interesting discussions
Feedback from SF on shift in the type of content Shreyas has been sharing with you over the past month
Subscriber-feedback
Getting inspired by @soren_iverson on being more creative
Skills
Hot take on someone who said computers are better than humans in chess.
Hard truths
Reason why people dont succeed in side gigs is because they focus more on selling rather than actually focus on what they are selling
Clear thinking
SF session on Immigrants in US
Subscriber-feedback
Technique to increase odds of getting the most important things done
Mental models
ChatGPT Plus recommendation for PMs
Products
Book recommendation: Spiritual Enlightment
Shreyas Advising
Book recommendation: Sum, 40 tales from the afterlife
Shreyas Advising
Example of a “rational” but a not good decision
Product Success
How people who are extremely good at craft through intuition justify it through wrong reasons.
Clear thinking
Play “What will AI do?” game with PMs
Product Success
Poll: Because of AI how likely will start ups have 3-4 members in 3 years time frame
Products
QT: You get a lot more done if you don’t care about who gets the credit. The challenge is that early in your career it is kind of important to get credit to be promoted in larger organizations.
Career
Comforting lie that “there is no great PM talent”
Hard truths
Mediocre creators will be one of the many casualties of AI progress
Writing
Reshare: Inception- art of influencing by letting people reach their own conclusions
Frameworks
Tendency to miss the AI wave and the need to acknowledge this feeling
Hard truths
Good example of creative execution (by F1)
Communication & Influence
What % of PMs do you estimate would consider changing their mind after seeing the results of a poll like this?
Interesting discussions
Feedback from SF (public or private)
Subscriber-feedback
Heavy rain
Subscriber-exclusive
Poll: Which *one of* these factors is *most commonly* the root cause of why people don’t get promoted?
Career
Book recommendation: Mom Test
PM
Importance of insight, creativity and influence for PM in GenAI era
Skills
Reasons why two teams are not working well together
Org psychology
Future workshop on Improving Product Sense
Career
Important CEO skill is clear thinking
Clear thinking
RT: Pretty good career advice
Career
If you ask how to learn X, you would most likely not learn X
Skills
If you dont believe that AI is huge, you are lacking imagination
Products
Google AI
Products
Getting Chatgpt premium subscription
Products
Float experience
Subscriber-exclusive
Appreciating first page of Rick Rubin’s book
Shreyas Advising
If you validate ideas based on others, you can get easily manipulated by a reasonably competent communicator
Communication & Influence
RT: Twitter algo on SVB
Hard truths
Next job framework- Money : Bullshit or Title : Bullshit or Scope : Bullshit
Career
Creativity often strikes when you aren't forcing a solution but yet floating in the problem.
Mental models
Feedback on which option will get more votes on LinkedIn Vs Twitter
Interesting discussions
It is not necessary for PM leaders to know all the details.
Leadership
Two choices on the poll are not the smartest in the long run
Shreyas Advising
You become the story you tell yourself about what skills you most value. And the antithesis of this.
Clear thinking
Snippets of conversation with Kunal Shah on hardwork and excellenece
Skills
Hot take on 2 retweets
Hard truths
LinkedIn messages are going to blow up
Products
Photos of new house
Subscriber-exclusive
Poll: Expectations from your favourite sports team
Org psychology
Ad recommendation around failure but did it lead Michael Jordan to succeed.
Skills
Discussion on thread about clear writing
Clear thinking
Mental model for online presence: Shreyas doesn’t think about himself as a creator.
Mental models
Recording of the time management workshop only for SF
Skills
Talented senior product folks can have higher leverage with their career rather than creating content
Shreyas Advising
Top 0.1% people in craft will do things differently. Don’t criticise, instead learn.
Skills
Note on intense job and work life balance
Skills
Product course is in top courses of Maven
Career
Retweet: Successful people know they will figure out stuff
Skills
I find that the people who most love the idea of managing a P&L are people who have never managed a P&L.
Skills
Podcast with Nikhyl Singhal
Interesting discussions
Starting a new course of managers and they are not clear about their roles
Management
Poll on opportunity cost
Org psychology
Case of high cost and high opportunity cost
Frameworks
Getting feedback on the Opportunity cost Vs Cost
Frameworks
Response on poll: The *primary* responsibility of a manager is towards
Management
Earning from supper followers over time. Still less yeild per hour compared to other sources
Interesting discussions
Improving the motivation of a teammember by highlighting their superpower
Management
Monetary impact of a tweet
Leadership
Poll: More niche content for SF
Subscriber-exclusive
How brilliant ideas are pushed down by a group and how to counter it
Communication & Influence
What super follows might be for
Subscriber-exclusive
Feedback on subscriber content
Writing
Meeting @hnshah and discussing about product and life philosophy
Interesting discussions
Requesting SF to read the thread before voting
Subscriber-feedback
Something that Shreyas will tweet only in SF and not in general- arguing personality
Hard truths
Average human is not smart and majority of the information is available for avg human
Hard truths
Don’t crib about take home assignment for SPM or PM learder role. Show emotional maturity
Career
Enjoyed working with @JorgeO
Communication & Influence
People who reject new ideas imply they won’t have new experiences
Org psychology
Book recommendation and extracts from “Creativity, A short and cheerfil guide”
Shreyas Advising
Challenging “never do anything for free” notion
Clear thinking
Checking Whatsapp groups was a mental tax
Clear thinking
Collaboration at leadership level
Org psychology
What are the jobs to be done of a like on Twitter?
PM
Why failure before success is a bad story
Hard truths
How to remove "we built this, but it didn't win" tendency
Mental models
Why even reversible decisions should be thought through
Mental models
Examples of biases
Clear thinking
Failure doesnt help in succeeding
Hard truths
1000 students milestone on the course
Subscriber-exclusive
Feedback from SF poll on why they want writing workshop than anything else
Shreyas Advising
People waste time arguing because they dont understand difference between necessary and sufficient conditions
Clear thinking
When reportees ask for real time feedback, they want “good job” validation
Management
Mental models
Podcast with Kunal Shah
Shreyas Advising
There is such a thing as high competence and it is smart to recognize that and act accordingly
Mental models
Poll: Topic for a weekend workshop
Subscriber-feedback
Announcement about product club
Subscriber-exclusive
Comparing consumption on Linkedin and Twitter
Interesting discussions
Disagreeing that without SQL you cannot be a world class PM
Skills
Not everyone can be creative, books lie to sell
Hard truths
People having ego as they think Kent Beck’s 3X principle is simple
Frameworks
Thinking competitors is smarter
Clear thinking
When your product is crushing it, your status updates and QBRs are short. When it is struggling, the status updates and QBRs are long.
Communication & Influence
Important of poll what successful product teams say when they are not successful
Product Success
“Let’s just try this” mantra in a team with median product talent vs top 10% product talent
Org psychology
Why “What would you do in this situation?” is a bad way to ask for advice
Career
Asking community for feedback on the session
Subscriber-feedback
Session notes shared by community member
Subscriber-exclusive
Reminder about the event
Career
Sharing cohort details before non SF users
Shreyas Advising
PM find it difficult to express and convince their teammates
PM
Live session details as discussed on 18 Jan 2023
Subscriber-exclusive
Being asshole on Twitter, LinkedIn and Real life
Shreyas Advising
PR and regulatory risks at bigger orgs kill products
Leadership
Asking SFs for examples of extreme thinking for high creativity
Product Success
Rewrite the story you tell yourself about technical aspects
Leadership
Doing a super follower live session
Subscriber-exclusive
World class instinct is priceless. e.g.Rick Rubin
Product Success
Asking team to discuss employee satisfaction score without the manager in room
Org psychology
Discussion on success story with and without struggle
Hard truths
Expected response from non SF audience about discussing e-satisfaction score without manager
Org psychology
Goes to Nikhyl Singhal for career advice and suggests his podcast
Interesting discussions
Life default happy, optimistic and light
Shreyas Advising
Podcast suggestion: leadership traits of Duke's Coach K (most successful all-time)
Interesting discussions
Poll: Investment in learning
Career
Meta PMs have more “I already know this” tendency
Hard truths
You get judged on your merit and impact when you quit 9-5
Career
Feedback from superfollowers
Subscriber-feedback
When asked about what do you do (at a smaller org)
Communication & Influence
Writing is creating experience rather than container of information
Writing
Some favorite survival tactics of managers
Management
When high performing SPM delegate, they should explain why they do so to their managers
Management
Main priority of company’s median employee
Org psychology
Why do you follow me?
Subscriber-feedback
Company’s mission is actually manipulation
Org psychology
Creativity in product strategy comparing companies
Leadership
Not everyone can do Product Strategy
Skills
Why 2-3 folks shouldn’t get on a customer discovery call
Product Success
Creativity is rare
Product Success
Sold out cohort for product career seminar
Miscellaneous
Tactic to get unstuck while working
Career
High friction between engineering, PM and design
Org psychology
Deep care in Stripe products
Product Success
Great teams are interdependent
Org psychology
Twitter’s future could be media consumption
Product Success
Custom email responses
Products
LastPass fiasco - PMs have one job
Product Success
Product awards are silly
Interesting discussions
Superfollower session in Mumbai
Miscellaneous
Self awareness in Product work
Career
Poll about Elon Musk’s decision making before becoming twitter’s CEO
Interesting discussions
Subscriber session in Hyderabad
Miscellaneous
Invite for Shreyas’s talk with Kunal Shah
Miscellaneous
Macbook pro’s a good laptop
Miscellaneous
Product sense in tiktok
Interesting discussions
Factors that effect buying and selling books in business
Clear thinking
Poll on CEO’s work habits
Org psychology
Poll on high grit and resilience
Clear thinking
Notes link of session on communication
Communication & Influence
Subscriber recording of session on communication
Miscellaneous
Evaluation of pre-launch products
Clear thinking
PM career course feedback
Miscellaneous
Subscriber event on communication
Miscellaneous
Stifling creativity by being overtly analytical
Org psychology
Team-building tactic
Org psychology
When to join a startup in today’s times
Career
Money vs Mission
Interesting discussions
Reason behind youtube sound and visual
Interesting discussions
AI is a 10x shift
Career
Creative execution matters
Product Success
PM career ladders at different companies
Career
Tool to draw charts in CSVs
Interesting discussions
Content vs Context
Writing
Negotiating compensation
Career
Superfollowers are now subscribers
Miscellaneous
Curated thread on early signs of layoffs
Org psychology
Best site for summarizing non fiction
Interesting discussions
PM career seminar last few seats for Dec 22
Miscellaneous
Removing vs adding friction
Product Success
Understand PR speak as a PM
Shreyas Advising
Contemplation on suboptimal leadership styles
Hard truths
Identifying peak happiness in self
Interesting discussions
Tactic to improve your writing
Skills
Articulation of vision is important
Hard truths
Minimize regret during mid career
Career
Opt out instead of opt in
PM
Prediction about twitter
Interesting discussions
Strategy for product safety at twitter
Interesting discussions
Wisdom and contentment via ideology
Shreyas Advising
Different tiers of PM influence on companies
PM
Presentation on marvel movies for JP Morgan
Interesting discussions
Roblox invite for Shreyas
Miscellaneous
Exercise for twitter blue/premium product
Interesting discussions
Heuristic for long term competence
Career
Strategy for work-life balance
Career
Tactic to prepare for a difficult meeting
Communication & Influence
Superfollower meetup ideas by Aakash
Miscellaneous
Superfollower meetup in Bengaluru registration link
Miscellaneous
Switch from windows to mac - considerations
Interesting discussions
PM career seminar feedback
Miscellaneous
Stack to run online cohort based course
Interesting discussions
Stakeholder communication session announcement for superfollowers
Miscellaneous
Create a personal mission for your career
Shreyas Advising
First cohort of PM career seminar
Miscellaneous
Book recommendation for interpersonal dynamics
Org psychology
Superfollower live event on stakeholder communication
Miscellaneous
NPS for PM career seminar
Miscellaneous
Amazon Prime vs Netflix
Interesting discussions
Amazon’s relentless execution of vision
Interesting discussions
Analytical thinking for bundling products
Clear thinking
PM seminar comprehensive review
Interesting discussions
Poll for superfollowers on exclusive events
Miscellaneous
Tactics for interviewing at your target company
Career
Tactics for success in high stakes interviews
Hiring
Once per quarter events for superfollowers
Miscellaneous
Superfollower exclusive event announcement on life
Miscellaneous
Optics of a leader in meetings
Leadership
Play with Gen AI apps on weekends to boost career
Career
Product sense , EM and Exec interviews for PMs
Hiring
Overpromise and underdeliver for internal expectations
Career
Subscriber-only content
Miscellaneous
CEOs who were PMs in the past
Interesting discussions
Podcast on performance coaching - Dr. Kapil Gupta
Interesting discussions
Heuristic for hiring a senior PM leader
Hiring
Building consumer SaaS business - Lenny link
Interesting discussions
Edits and edicts for massively scaled products
Org psychology
Superfollower community meetup - Bangalore
Miscellaneous
Base reference material writing for PM career seminar
Writing
JTBD for a pet restaurant business
Interesting discussions
PSHE framework discussion - Lenny and Shishir
Frameworks
Incumbents are slow, not stupid
Hard truths
Introvert population in tech is significant
Org psychology
Gen AI is the next big shift in technology
Interesting discussions
Superfollower meetup - Mumbai
Miscellaneous
Superfollower-only event for non-product discussions
Miscellaneous
Understanding hot takes on megacorps like google
Shreyas Advising
Candid opinions due to not being tied to an employer
Interesting discussions
Effects of hacking interviews
Hiring
Optimization of learning and wisdom
Career
Plagiarism of product content
Interesting discussions
PM Interview rubric
Shreyas Advising
Correlation of status updates to impact
Product Success
Spotting logical fallacies
Clear thinking
Superfollower only seminar
Miscellaneous
Holistic evaluation of references
Shreyas Advising
Ownership of vision is singular
PM
Wisdom favors simplicity over complexity
Clear thinking
Communication tactics during Q&A
Communication & Influence
Prioritization of speculative bets in Stripe
Product Success
Subconscious tactics to handle Q&A
Communication & Influence
Communication Advise for tricky situations
Shreyas Advising
Exclusive seminar on PM career for subscribers
Career
Choosing a PM manager
Leadership
Handling engineering dominant cultures
Org psychology
Managing up: Meaning in the eye of the beholder
Management
Adobe-Figma deal: Nuanced understanding
Interesting discussions
Asking for help as a PM
Communication & Influence
Eng-Design superfollowers recording
Interesting discussions
Buyer psychology for B2B PMs
Mental models
Great leaders ask great questions
Leadership
Product announcement framework
Communication & Influence
Setting the right culture to innovate
Org psychology
Activation friction should be avoided
Shreyas Advising
Centralization in real life
Interesting discussions
Analytics tools for feature usage and adoption
Interesting discussions
Effective note-taking as a PM
PM
Success in Thought leadership requires competence
Hard truths
Working with people who have good product taste
Product Success
Distribution can be an amplifier
Product Success
Personal philosophy about engagement
Interesting discussions
Eng-Design workshop for superfollowers
Shreyas Advising
Effective management doesn’t depend on 1-1s
Hard truths
Distinguish between entertainment and value
Interesting discussions
PM relationship perspectives
Interesting discussions
Podcast on optimal success in business
Interesting discussions
iMessage relationships with external advisors
Shreyas Advising
Assessment of judgement in interviews
Hiring
Generative vs Evaluative PMs
PM
Naming people vs teams by executives
Leadership
Second Order thinking - Chesterton’s fence
Frameworks
Creation of product strategy seems to work
Org psychology
Effective delegation <=> intrinsic motivation
Communication & Influence
Observation of world class talents
Career
Value of focus
Interesting discussions
Wolf - kind of IC leadership
Leadership
Best TV shows
Interesting discussions
Product signals from aggregate metrics
Frameworks
Trade-offs in decision making
Interesting discussions
Poll about superfollower session on PM performance
PM
Authentic creation
Communication & Influence
Heuristic for focused efforts as a PM
Mental models
B2B GTM podcast with Zoominfo CEO
Interesting discussions
Measuring focus capacity weekly
Frameworks
Market sizing is a persuasive tool
Hard truths
Does your manager enable and teach you
Leadership
Shreyas coaching
Shreyas Advising
Stated vs revealed preferences
Hiring
PMs value insights from all sources, incl. engineering
PM
Stripe session on product building skills
Product Success
Common biases during an acquisition
Hard truths
Constructive observation helps, not ridicule
Hard truths
High agency behavior during an acquisition
Career
Popularity or social validation isn’t always desirable
Interesting discussions
Actionable, insightful feedback happens at many levels
Interesting discussions
Common pitfalls of product reviews
Product Success
Insightful feedback is sometimes painful, but also useful
Shreyas Advising
Problems in Tier 1 vs Tier 3 Product culture
Interesting discussions
A thread on segmentation, product strategy, customer problems, and B2B product success
Product Success
Big product and little product
Shreyas Advising
Customer segment for B2B product
Frameworks
Founder Q/A on explore/expand/extract
Shreyas Advising
Product <> mental model of domain and users
Product Success
Leaders need to adapt
Hard truths
Maximizing impact requires focus on key aspects in an organization
Clear thinking
Automated Amazon CX is great
Interesting discussions
Different contexts require different approaches
Interesting discussions
Experience in product matters in context
Skills
Anti-thesis principle for creating impact without a competent manager
Frameworks
Apple pie thinking can sound persuasive
Shreyas Advising
Decent vs Great managers
Management
Manager traits for PMs with high agency
Management
Strawman thinking in public discourse
Interesting discussions
Awkward conversations don’t excuse outcomes
Shreyas Advising
Consider user reactance to nudge behavior
Clear thinking
Google Maps nudges users to walk without nuance
Clear thinking
High agency decision: Impact vs inclusion
Interesting discussions
High agency leaders step in to increase odds of success
Shreyas Advising
How good product sense fosters nuanced thinking
Skills
Product-Engineering organization dynamics
Org psychology
Roadblocks to inducing behavior change: Google Maps
Interesting discussions
Senior leaders take unpopular calls
Hard truths
Unplanned optimization leads to unideal progress
Leadership
Anti-thesis principle in group emails
Org psychology
Focus on customer value in hiring
Hiring
Focus on differentiation in hiring
Hiring
Strategy in Action: Roger Martin’s Blog
Interesting discussions
Book recommendation about building products
Leadership
Candor and vulnerability helps
Shreyas Advising
Curiosity works over pretense
Shreyas Advising
HBO Show Winning time lessons for product people
Interesting discussions
Youtube recommendation: Principles in tech
Clear thinking
Constructive discussion vs harmful disagreement in product teams
Org psychology
Google’s “poor” messaging strategy
Interesting discussions
Unspoken mastery of experts
Hard truths
Making Cross functional meetings successful
Communication & Influence
Operations PMs embracing creativity
Product Success
Productivity hack in Google Chrome
Skills
Tactic to combat procrastination
Shreyas Advising
Tactics for better cross-functional execution
Communication & Influence
Google Maps unintuitive design
Interesting discussions
Cultivating judgement: Macro vs Micro lessons
Mental models
Hiring pitfalls for high growth companies
Hiring
Importance of context when joining a new team
Org psychology
Learning macro lessons => exceptional judgement
Clear thinking
Senior vs IC PMs: depth-driven vs surface level feedback
Leadership
Company culture and communication
Interesting discussions
Exercising PM skills in real life
Interesting discussions
How is Microsoft Teams good/bad
Interesting discussions
Groom environment of high quality of work
Shreyas Advising
Accountability vs Optics while influencing C-level executives
Communication & Influence
Autonomy comes with responsibility of high integrity => “high agency”
Hard truths
Impact of seemingly “small” decisions on consumer perception, brand loyalty and valuation
Interesting discussions
Importance of “tiny” details in brand perception
Interesting discussions
Time management for monthly priorities
Management
Hard truths
Org psychology
Management
Communication & Influence
Interesting discussions
Hard truths
Career
Shreyas Advising
Skills
Hard truths
Communication & Influence
PM
Shreyas Advising
Org psychology
Management
Shreyas Advising
Career
Leadership
Org psychology
Product Success
Communication & Influence
Org psychology
Career
Writing
Hard truths
Clear thinking
Hard truths
Interesting discussions
Hiring
Career
Hard truths
Org psychology
Skills
Communication & Influence
Shreyas Advising
Interesting discussions
Communication & Influence
PM
Career
Hard truths
Communication & Influence
Leadership
Skills
Communication & Influence
Leadership
Miscellaneous
Hard truths
Super follower session on segmentation
Miscellaneous
Coachable, intrinsic and learnable PM traits
Hiring
Hard truths
Product Success
Management
Considering product management courses to teach
Dealing with friction in writing
Writing
Shitty first drafts
Writing
Superfollower session on customer segmentation
Validate assumptions continuously
Product Success
Common mistake in 0-1 and 1-10 teams
Product Success
Distraction of news isn’t useful
Clear thinking
Not everyone can interview for product sense
Hiring
Oversimplification is ubiquitous
Clear thinking
Assessing strengths of PMs
Hiring
In person meet and greet at NYC
Become a better manager by identifying drama triangles
Management
Friction during unsubscribing
Interesting discussions
Hiring worksheet for senior PMs
Hiring
OKRs need not be tied to performance evaluations
Career
Leadership
Decision making and communication
Clear thinking
Root cause of disagreements
Communication & Influence
Encourage creativity for innovation
Org psychology
Critical thinking at work
Org psychology
PMF in one tweet
Clear thinking
Hard truths
Career
Communication & Influence
Org psychology
Org psychology
Communication & Influence
PM
Interesting discussions
Hard truths
Communication & Influence
Frameworks
Hard truths
Communication & Influence
Hiring
Career
Communication & Influence
Leadership
Hard truths
Shreyas Advising
Frameworks
Interesting discussions
Interesting discussions
Hard truths
Interesting discussions
Interesting discussions
Org psychology
Interesting discussions
Frameworks
Career
Product Success
Frameworks
Communication & Influence
Org psychology
Hard truths
Interesting discussions
Hard truths
Frameworks
Interesting discussions
Communication & Influence
Writing
Interesting discussions
Hiring
Career
Interesting discussions
Hard truths
Interesting discussions
Communication & Influence
Hard truths
Product Success
Communication & Influence
Communication & Influence
Hard truths
Communication & Influence
Writing
Communication & Influence
Leadership
Hard truths
Frameworks
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Frameworks
Product Success
Interesting discussions
Frameworks
Interesting discussions
Product Success
Frameworks
Skills
Career
Hard truths
Communication & Influence
Career
Career
Shreyas Advising
Career
Hiring
Hiring
Career
Interesting discussions
Hard truths
Interesting discussions
Interesting discussions
Career
Product Success
Communication & Influence
Interesting discussions
Skills
Career
Product Success
Interesting discussions
Career
Hiring
Org psychology
Career
Interesting discussions
Interesting discussions
Communication & Influence
Leadership
Interesting discussions
Writing
Interesting discussions
Career
Hiring
Hard truths
Hard truths
Career
Interesting discussions
Career
Miscellaneous
Interesting discussions
Miscellaneous
Career
Hard truths
Career
Hard truths
Leadership
Hiring
Hard truths
Interesting discussions
Interesting discussions
PM
Career
Career
Hiring
Hard truths
Shreyas Advising
Org psychology
Shreyas Advising
Product Success
Interesting discussions
Miscellaneous
Skills
Career
Career
Shreyas Advising
Miscellaneous
Interesting discussions
Shreyas Advising
Product Success
Interesting discussions
Product Success
Skills
Interesting discussions
Frameworks
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