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Invest in a relationship based on how much the other person invests
I recently watched a Youtube video with a rather clickbaity title – Stop Being A Nice Guy Or You Will Regret It. The content turned out to be more interesting than what the title suggests. There’s a line in it which I thought was interesting: “Don’t invest in someone based on how much you like…
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A meditation on my self-awareness
Note: This may get a bit personal. I really didn’t write it thinking that it might help you in any way. It’s one of those selfish blog posts that the authors dedicate to no one but themselves. But I welcome all readership. Would you enjoy looking at an intrusion of cockroaches? No, you wouldn’t. It…
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2021 Reflection – I lived
This is a long due reflection blog post. It’s already March, and so you can even say that it’s long overdue. I wrote the first draft during the last days of 2021, but life get in the way and I haven’t got a chance to review and edit since then. But it will surely bug…
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Unqualified
During a recent conversation, I was told (in a very constructive way) that the phrasing “not qualified to be something” seems to be a bit offensive
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Get everyone out of the building – or how Product Managers are like Fire Fighters
I realize that “get out of the building” is probably already an advice that’s meant for everyone. But If I may rephrase the advice so that it incorporates a bit better the nuance that I’ve observed, I would call it “Get everyone out of the building”, which sounds like something that a Fire Fighter would…
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Memory of a world that never existed
There was a protagonist who sacrificed his existence to save the world from a villain that vows to destroy it because it took away the only person whom he loves.
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On exploring human nature
Nature is like this: everything changes it shape according to your nature. It is what lurks beneath our actions and our intentions. It is also a perfect self-preserving system. If I have a choice, I wouldn’t choose to be anything other than myself. It is one of those things that assigns values and meanings. It…
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A holistic look at how different product frameworks combine to empower product strategy
A product strategy can be seen as a function that takes in business outcomes, possible product changes, activities people do and produce an effective action. JTBD helps discover activities people do that need improvement. Company Vision Helps identify business outcomes. The North Star Framework helps produce metrics that align with business outcomes and activities customers…
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The Build Trap, Great Product Managers, Strategic Gaps and Product Kata
Last month, I finished reading Escaping the build trap as part of an attempt to discover the pillars of product management. Although I did not discover anything of sort, I think it was a great read since the book provides useful frameworks and mental models that I can apply in my daily work. In this blog post,…
Dafuq is that 