Homage to the Medium Community
Two weeks ago I wrote my first story after being an avid reader since the launch.
An idea came to my mind and I immediately started jotting down my thoughts. After 2 hours the story was out, I was so happy! I also couldn’t believe how easy it was to get going.
Fast forward to today, writing my fifth story, having had so many good experiences in such a short time, I wanted to pause and say thank you.
My first two weeks on medium
My first stories started conversations with old colleagues and I was happy that even voicu oprean, my favourite CEO from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, liked it.
Then we’ve had a funny exchange with iNahid📱, discovered interesting people like Conor Smith and yesterday my last story, Good PMs are good writers, got featured on Hackernoon! No idea how that happened, but thank you David Smooke.
Another great side-effect is that I’ve been reading a lot more lately!
I discovered one of the most eye-opening articles I’ve read in a while: The 2 mental shifts every highly successful person makes by Benjamin P. Hardy. (don’t let the clickbait title mislead you, it’s worth the read.) It even inspired me to create this poster:
I feel like I’ve not only learned a lot these weeks, but also got to improve my writing skills. I plan to continue focusing mostly on topics related to product management, marketplaces and digital products in general.
Thank you! Grazie! Danke!
Long story short, I’ve never seen such a positive and welcoming community. I’m grateful for being part of it and wanted to thank you all for your support!
I also have a proposal for an improvement. We could contribute more by telling our own story, giving context to our words and enabling others to ask questions. I’d love to hear everyone’s personal story, the journey that lead you to where you are today. So let me start.
I’m Adam
I live in Zürich and work as a Product Manager in a small team with a big heart. We’re the Craigslist of Switzerland, tutti.ch.
My career started as a web developer back when we were happy to drop support for Internet Explorer 5. After my first startup launched in 2007 and got some traction, I decided to play professional basketball and walked away. Realised after half a year that it’s not the right way, picked up web development again, then got into Project Management. At some point I was leading a team of 25 developers at arobs.com, being very proud of our team.
Next chapter, I dedicated my time growing hipwerk.com by building startups on demand. We’ve had a small, distributed team, worked with some cool clients while dog-fooding our services by launching our own products.
Built, measured, learned, failed.
Nevertheless, I carry all the memories and learnings with me, together with the connections to all the awesome people I’ve met during the years.
And I’m not done yet.
