Mistakes will happen. For product managers learning in public, understanding how to fail better is a crucial skill. Being a product manager is a bizarre profession — there’s no formal degree you can acquire first which means most of your learning is done on the job, in a hands-on way…

Change your approach to change your outcomes. How you spend your time is how you spend your life. As product managers, it can be so easy to fall into the Time Suck Trap — the endless abyss of external requests that turn into hours on end of Slack messages, putting…

I’ve been thinking a lot about the word brave and how it manifests in our lives in this totally upside-down world we are currently living in. As product managers, if we were in the Wizard of Oz, we’d be the “horse of a different colour” for going into this line…

A framework to help you make better decisions and avoid not remembering why previous decisions were made A few years ago, I took on a brand new product area that someone else had already been working in to bring the product up to a certain point. We were pre-launch, but…

I’ve done hundreds of hours of work so you don’t have to. Last year I shared, “Product Manager Resources: The Best Place to Start” for free after creating it as a tool for myself. I was frustrated and overwhelmed with the sheer number of PM resources available and wanted to…

My barometer check for successful products and why I think this is something we need to focus on more now than ever before. — In the 90s, Bill and Melinda Gates happened to read a newspaper article that they just couldn’t shake — one that opened their eyes to the impact of disease in poor countries and changed their trajectory and focus. The article was about how 800,000 kids die every year from diarrheal…

If there’s anything we’ve learned over the past few days it’s that the promise of security is merely an illusion. And that basic human decency and moral compasses are largely missing in big tech working environments. In a six day span, we saw roughly 16,500 major layoffs across Meta and…

My answer to the dreaded family get-together question. The responses to the question “What is a product manager?” are all over the place. …from “CEO of the product” to “Someone that helps their team and company build and ship the right product” to “Don’t answer this question — it’s a…

I’m tired of seeing ethical job boards spun up with like three job postings. These new tools are not that. With the recent Twitter situation, ongoing evolution of the Metaverse, current economy, and countless other, “What is even happening right now???” moments over the past week, I was met with…