Product manager. Truth seeker.
Joined July 2010
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Here’s a good metric for measuring maturity:
How many assumptions that you are >= 90% confident in turn out to be wrong?
The more such assumptions you have, the less mature you are.
We don’t always get to build products people love.
Sometimes we need to build products people tolerate.
And sometimes we even need to build products people fear.
One reason some men are single is cos their brain, heart, and penis can’t align on one woman.
Maybe this is why Islam allows up to 4 wives.
One for the brain, one for the heart, one for the kehed, and one the parents like lol
It’s not having a fancy or grassroot taste that’s important. It’s having the range to appreciate both deeply.
You have that, you have the capability to humble the snobs and elevate the normies.
Some people would do the impactful thing, whether it’s visible or not.
And some people would do the visible thing, whether it’s impactful or not.
It’s a privilege to no longer fear our imperfections and to have less inhibitions to express the human parts of ourselves.
“Personal branding” can be harmful if we can’t navigate the narrow overlap between a person and a brand.
A person is not and can never fully be a brand.
Firefighting pushes us off.
Business as usual lands us on our feet.
Moonshot gives us direction.
In order to grow, the amount of each aspect in our lives cannot be 0% or 100%.
Not enough people ask questions. And among people who ask questions not enough people ask the right questions.
The aim of a debate is to make sure bad ideas stay ideas and people who debate for other reasons need counselling.
Soft skills compounded make up hard skills.
“Street smart”, “business acumen”, and “product sense” are hard skills needed for higher level jobs and they are based on many underlying soft skills.
We need to be smart, wise, and brave to get to the top.