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A thread of resources for aspiring & new Product Managers:

(should also be useful for Eng, Design, Data Science, Mktg, Ops folks who want to get better at PM work or want to build more empathy for your PM friends ☺️)

(oh, and pls also share *your* favorite resources below)

👇🏾

 1/

Product Management - Start Here by @cagan
(hard to go wrong if you start with Marty Cagan’s work)

https://t.co/hft46GK3Pm
2/

Tips for Breaking into PM by @sriramk
(I’ve recommended this thread in my DMs more often than any other thread, by a pretty wide margin)

https://t.co/lIaEAwDck9
3/

Top 100 Product Management Resources by @sachinrekhi
(well-categorized index so you can focus on whatever’s most useful right now)

https://t.co/DrduxS6cfq
4/

Brief interruption.

It’s important to understand your preferred learning style and go all in on that learning style (vs. struggling / procrastinating as you force a non-preferred learning style)

https://t.co/f3H0bab7pt
5/

Podcast:
Build with @maggiecrowley

https://t.co/7aCZ3oh6Bl
6/

Other podcasts I like as a PM

https://t.co/voOqetlv2U
7/

Twitter is an invaluable resource for product people, much better than LinkedIn content.

Use it, and tell your PM friends to use it too.

But whom to follow?

Check out this list:
https://t.co/2cCPLZpQn7

(fellow PMs, please reply below with other lists/accounts you like)
8/

Consider following PM communities such as @TheProductfolks @womenpm

(fellow PMs, please do share more PM communities below)
9/

Top 3 books for entry level PMs:
Inspired
Getting Things Done
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

https://t.co/LJbTQUtF3B
10/

Also check out Escaping the Build Trap @lissijean

https://t.co/bTCGsQk5Ib
11/

I’m a fan of product/UI/strategy teardowns as a way to "learn-by-doing".

One teardowns resource I’ve recommended for a while is https://t.co/BSeVzFZSNG

There are a few out there (fellow PMs, please share more teardown resources below).
12/

Lastly:

Be sure you want to be a PM. It’s a great role. I love it.

But PM isn’t the “step up” that ppl think it is.

There are other paths to success.

So choose it for the right reasons & be open to cutting your losses if you find out it isn’t for you

All the best!
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Listening, *really* listening, is a rare superpower.

I was a bad listener most of my life.

Then I fixed that a few years ago.

Night & day difference in my leadership ability.

I learned that we can learn to listen well.

A thread on listening (and learning it from movies🎞️)
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First, why is listening hard?

It’s because we have:
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- an inability to be present
- a desire for validation
- a lack of curiosity
- the urge to impress
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For an example of *bad* listening, let’s learn from this epic scene from the movie, The Darkest Hour.

The setup: World War II. There are disagreements among British leadership about whether they should pursue peace talks with Germany or an all out war.

Go on, watch the scene.


Really, watch the scene before proceeding to the next tweet.

So what can we learn from this scene about listening?

The superficial lesson is not to interrupt others.

But the deeper lesson is that most of us are like Churchill w.r.t. listening.

How so?

While we may not interrupt vocally, *we are interrupting others with our thoughts*
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Why does Your Manager’s Manager (YMM) request a deck/doc during a meeting, says it’s urgent, and then doesn’t respond for days after you create & send it?

Or, why does YMM often respond with trivial feedback (e.g. formatting) & not substantive feedback?

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Have you set an entirely new password on a site & said to yourself: “surely, I’ll remember it becos this site is so important for me”. Have you then gone on to forget that password the very next week?

Me too.

The reason for YMM’s odd behavior & my password optimism is the same.

That reason is the Focusing Illusion, first described by Daniel Kahneman.

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When YMM asked you to create that doc as one of the follow up actions during the Product Review, YMM fell prey to the Focusing Illusion.

Trust me, YMM had no intention of making you do busywork.

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A B2B Product Management Story: on discovering problems that customers actually care about

Very visual story thread👇🏾


Our story starts with a new product idea

PM diligently talks to customers about whether this product will solve their problems


Customers say yes!


PM reports findings to the executive team

There's excitement

Staffing obtained 🙌🏾


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Standing on the cusp of 2021, life can be exhausting.

No matter where we look on social media, we will find people who seem wealthier, luckier, prettier, healthier, more popular, smarter, happier than us.

As highly ambitious people, what are we to do?

A solution to consider👇🏾

The solution, in three words:

Aim for Mediocrity

Here’s what I’ve done for years now:

1) Aim to be mediocre at most things.

2) Celebrate this mediocrity.

3) Then focus on excellence at a few things.

4) Make sure those few things align with my passions, my strengths, and what the world needs.

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5) Work hard at those few things for long periods of time.

6) Find rewards in the act of getting better, not in immediate external feedback.

7) Get clarity on what rewards really matter.

8) Trust that those rewards will come.

9) Tweak my approach as I learn more.

An acceptance of our mediocrity is a ticket to freedom.

Very few smart & ambitious people recognize this.

This isn’t about giving up or "being a loser".

It’s about recognizing that very few of the things that bring us lifelong anxiety actually matter, when all is said & done.
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Includes:
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Good people, bad managers
Customer segmentation
LinkedIn Envy
On communication
Important definitions
Life-changing books
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A story that often plays out when we are not rigorous enough about the importance of the customer problem our product


The 3 types / hats / modes of product


An extremely important observation about product


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Orgel's First Rule:

"Whenever a spontaneous process is too slow or too inefficient a protein will evolve to speed it up or make it more efficient."

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It's more likely to be wrapped around a tree than finish the race.


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If you had a working URL, it just spat out whatever it had whether you were logged in or not.

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