North Star Metrics 101 Over the past several years, @johncutlefish went through 100s of North Star Workshops with real companies at @Amplitude_HQ Want to know a secret? John distilled 4 patterns for North Star Metrics & 8–12 patterns for Input Metrics (see details below) 🧵👇 North Star Metric Pattern #1 …

“What is your favorite product? How will you improve it?” When you get this question in an interview, pick something unexpected. Don’t pick something obvious like Netflix They’re trying to figure out your “product sense” 7 tips on increasing + using your product sense: 1/ Try products It costs nothing…

If I had to build a new team, here’s what I’d ask them to read before starting 🧵👇 Book #1: How to Decide by @AnnieDuke Decision-making is art+science This book is like those Bob Ross videos + an MIT course [Link] Book #2: Never Split the Difference by @fbinegotiator Most…

I recently completed “Mastering Product Management” from Reforge. Since more than 10 people were curious, I want to share some key ideas I learned. You’ll want to learn more about how to execute these ideas right away. They’re no-nonsense & powerful additions to your toolkit. Your next 3 months at…

Over the past 18 months, I have worked on internal tools. What most people don’t know? Internal tools can be 10X harder to work on. Here’s why: 🧵👇 1/ The challenge of discovery shifts. It’s easy to go into “requirements gathering”. “Requirements are hypotheses” @davidjbland Your users are super close…

To succeed in a new product role, you’re going to need a handful of things. I’ve been through a few ups & downs as a PM. Every time in a new role, it felt like starting a new business from scratch. PM work is different company-to-company. I want to give…

I under-communicated, and it cost me. I was feeling embarrassed. It was too late. My CEO looked puzzled and so did the Head of Product. I could feel the tension building like a laser beam through the little green dot of the webcam. I hadn’t prepared every single person in…

Over the past 12 months, I have read 71 non-fiction books. 90% of them weren’t worth it. Save yourself the time and just read these 7 🧵👇 Book #1: How To Measure Anything The topic of metrics, measurement, outcomes thinking confounds even the smartest people. They get stuck between no…

Someone asked me recently: What do you think is the difference between a Product Manager & an Indie Hacker? According to George Leonard’s “Mastery”, “The Hacker has a different attitude. After sort of getting the hang of a thing, he or she is willing to stay on the plateau indefinitely…