“How do I develop my strategic thinking?” This is a question I’ve wondered for many years and often get asked by junior PMs. It is an intangible concept that non-traditionally-MBA-trained product leaders tend to struggle with. To me, strategies are just solutions to problems. And any solution can be labeled…

It’s annual review period for many companies and a lot of people are now thinking about their promotion. It can be especially stressful for A-type PMs, who are concerned with advancing in their career: more scope, more pay or a move into people management. …

Find a role you are excited for Long before any company is interviewing you for a job, you as a candidate should have already screened a ton of other companies to help decide that this one is worthy of your time and effort. Searching for a job take time and patience. I usually spend about 2–3 weeks…

As a product manager I do a lot of presentations in 1:1s, in front of my team, and to stakeholders. But there are only a few, rare opportunities to get up on stage and present to my business org or even in front of the whole company. …

I’ve been the proud owner of an iPhone since my very first 3GS. But after 8 years, I’ve finally decided to move on from my latest iPhone 6 to a new Galaxy S8. In the past, every 2 years I was ready to fork over $699 to Apple for a…

Attend meetings, take notes, create tickets, document stuff, scribble on whiteboards, crawl on Medium/Quora/Product Hunt, gawk over new apps, fill my home with every gadget I could afford… If you asked me what I do as product manager, that’s how I would ramble on. The truth is that product management…

Having spent 2 years in e-commerce, my nascent view thus far is that every player in this space lies on a spectrum of centralized to de-centralized. Centralized Let’s imagine you are walking through the SoHo district of e-commerce. On the centralized end of the block, you have the “everything” stores: Amazon…

Talk about 13 going on 30, I recently tried out Musical.ly and it made me feel like a 13 year old again. First, let me establish that I have ZERO musical and production talent, and yet I was making lip sync music videos in just seconds. But the app is…

At Etsy, we have always regarded transparency as an important value, but recently I realized transparency without assuming good intentions actually create more problems than it solves. But assuming good intentions is tough because it’s the complete opposite mentality of the one taught to us as kids. We were told…