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Here's a fun activity you can do with your team. 1. It starts with a prompt: What words do we use that seem to cause confusion? Give people a couple mi…
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Update: I had a great time recording an interview with Shreyas Doshi (the Twitter product thread wizard). It is ninety minutes of wisdom, humility, and…
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Hello friends! I’m very excited to share something I’ve been testing for a couple months now. It is an opportunity for me to do what I love—meet and co…
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Short post this week. I'd like to share an exercise I use during my North Star Framework workshops. The exercise is valuable no matter which framework …
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Autonomy. Empowerment. Agency. I hear, and use, these words often. But what do they mean? A couple years ago I tried to tackle this problem without get…
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Note: I did a short video on high work in progress you might find interesting On to this week’s post… A team member at Amplitude recently asked the fol…
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Here's something I've observed about how people (and companies) give and receive product advice. The "higher performers" underestimate the impact of th…
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Watch out for damaging cascades of work, goals, etc. What do they look like? As we go "down" the damaging cascade, things get.... More prescriptive, mo…
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Doubling up this week to keep up my "ship on Thursday" habit. Check out yesterday's off-schedule post: The Mediocrity Trap And some thoughts today, ins…
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aka Don't Do Meh Product Work
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How do I push back on requests from sales to build stuff to close deals? I get this question often, and I'd like to share a summary of my standard resp…
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I recently posed the following question on Twitter: What is more common in your org? A. Premature convergence? Pushing for solutions and agreement too …
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