How much was your coaching experience worth to you? my friend asked. I scratched my head and thought about it. I can’t put a number to it, I responded. It was priceless. He wouldn’t accept that as an answer. …

So you’ve got a degree in computer science. Should you become a software engineer or product manager? I can’t tell you the answer, but I can tell you about my experiences as each. Engineers and product managers work together every day to achieve the same goals, but the two roles…

Improvisational theatre and product management have well-documented parallels: they both involve thinking on your feet, dealing with heavy uncertainty, and saying “Yes, and…”. Six months into my PM career, I signed up for an improv class hoping to build these skills. Yes, I walked out feeling more comfortable improvising at…

When more than 20 million people use your service each month, how and when you roll out a redesign matters. When considering making a big…

We built a new game on Quizlet called Gravity to help students learn vocabulary while having fun. As words fall down your screen from outer space in the form of “asteroids,” you race to type the answer before they hit the planet. Building all the animations we needed in React…