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The Insiders Guide to Technical Product Management Make 6 Figures. Work Remote. Build the Future.
Building new products is hard. Like, really hard. It will make you pull your hair out as you get closer and closer to launch and the list of To Do’s explodes. By definition of being new, there is no clear instruction manual. The…
All the tactics, strategies, and frameworks you learn to be an effective product manager are secondary value drivers. None in a vacuum provide the value to justify the large comp package and responsibilities product managers…
Part of the job of a Product Manager is to keep their ears to the ground. You must be aware of innovations, changes, and new tools in the technological landscape to avoid falling. Every week I find myself bookmarking tweets,…
Few things in modern life inspire more fear than logging into a meeting with your boss only to see the unwelcomed face of an HR representative. What you thought was just another Thursday turns flips your life upside down. HR Rep:…
Technical Product Management is inherently an intermediate role. To operate successfully as a Product Manager, you must grasp how enterprise software development functions, and what users expect out of technology. These are…
To understand a company’s identity, look at the background of the person in charge. All great businesses start with a vision of a founder who saw a path toward Product/Market fit. How that founder navigates their way to a…
Part of the job of a Product Manager is to keep their ears to the ground. You must be aware of innovations, changes, and new tools in the technological landscape to avoid falling. Every week I find myself bookmarking tweets,…
Product Management is not for the faint of heart. You are the most visible face of the product you own. This is wonderful when things are going well at the company. This can be miserable in tough times. PMs are expected to pick…
It’s 2 AM. You can’t sleep. You’re spiraling emotionally. You don’t know if you’re cut out for the challenge at hand. You browse the internet, impulsively reading Reddit thread after Reddit thread of people wanting to quit…
Developing Software is a team sport. Your success as a product manager is directly tied to how you collaborate with others. Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and even other Product Managers themselves. To embody that spirit…
True leaders in this world are rare. They’re even more rare in a corporate setting. One strong belief presented in this newsletter is that personal incentives are the primary driver of all individual actions. People want to make…
The ability to write is mission-critical to success as a product manager. Amazon takes this to an extreme, centralizing its work culture around the writing of 6-page memos . To pursue any business idea, a 6-page narrative-based…