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Co-authored with my husband, Ben Horowitz. No, not that Ben Horowitz.
Before you start building any new solutions, it’s important to understand the difference between innovation and invention.
Product Managers sell futures in never-before-seen, intangible things. To earn buy-in, you need to help people visualize what this is and get excited about it. If you’re asking people to give you resources to build it, they need to feel the painful void of not having this yet…
Divergent thinking is the art of generating abundant ideas, unbound by false constraints.
Convergent thinking is the skill of distilling many ideas into a focused few.
Diverging to create choices and converging to make choices is the basis of…
A list of educational resource curated over the last 10 years of my career in product. I’ve put authors and resources worth following in parentheses where applicable.
Product best practices
My uncle Ronnie, whom I think I met only once when I was 3 years old, taught my father how to drive according to his 4 rules of driving. My father, in turn, taught me and I’ve never forgotten them. In no particular order, they are:
Anna’s* leg was amputated when she was 8 years old. Her earliest memories are of nurses, cold white halls, and fear. Anna and her family spent several years fighting an uphill battle, uncertain if they could win.
