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Some of my postings on Linkedin

Recently, I stopped reading business books cover to cover.
Date: Feb 2021
Falling in love with Solution
Date: Jan 2021
This is the phase in your life where you can ask with no judgment..
Date: Jan 2021
Design systems solve for efficiency and not creativity.
Date: Dec 2020
The 1st lesson that should be taught in Software Engineering is that customers don't care about technology.
Date: Dec 2020
One of the worst pieces of advice I followed early in my product management career was to only focus on my strengths and ignore my weaknesses.
Date: Dec 2020
My product mentor once told me that the exponential function is a Stack of S-curves
Date: Dec 2020
Nobody ever gets the credit for fixing problems that never happened.
Date: Nov 2020
Simplifying complex ideas and explaining them to anyone in plain English without using acronyms.
Date: Nov 2020
A common myth in the product management community is the idea that overworking and less sleep will produce greater results.
Date: 2020
If you ask a Product Manager: "When was the last time you met with a customer?"
Date: Nov 2020
Thoughts on Product Backlogs - Part 2
Date: 2020
As a product manager, I proudly maintained the backlog before every sprint. But now I don't.
Date: Nov 2020
I once finished building a huge feature with the team. As a typical product manager I ran the fancy slides across the board to communicate how innovative and strategic this feature is and its forever profitable business case 💰💰💰
Date: Oct 2020
As product managers we always hear the phrase "Ruthless Prioritization and Always Say No" but we never talk about the "Fragility of new ideas".
Date: Nov 2020
There's a strange pattern happening in the Product Management community.
Date: Oct 2020
Rule 9: Assume That The Person You Are Listening To Might Know Something You Don’t
Date: Oct 2020
Most people don't think simple enough
Date: March 2020
Imagine if I asked you to make me a loaf of bread.
As Product Managers, we need to talk about our never-ending obsession with "Roadmap Tools"
Date: March 2020
This is very similar to how engineers debate which programming language is better.
So you hired world-class consultants to implement a "Cohesive Agile Transformation Strategy".
Date: March 2020
If the team is Bad, nothing will happen, things could get even far worse.
You need to learn to THINK.
Date: March 2020
The best way to learn how to think is to learn how to WRITE.
Silent Sloan
Date: March 2020
One of the stories I love is the story of Alfred P. Sloan and how he Transformed General Motors.
One the best advices I ever got on Product Management
Date: March 2020
Spend more time with Sales, meet Customers more than you meet your Team and understand the Market.
It felt wrong when I first read that sentence.
Date: Feb 2020
It was from Richard Rumelt's book "Good Strategy Bad Strategy"
One of the worst feelings in the world is to be incredibly busy but feel that you’re not making any progress
Date: Feb 2020
I felt like this for a good portion of my life.
Stephen King and the Happy Stamps
Date: Jan 2020
Back in 2000, Stephen King wanted to write a book to capture his learnings about what makes a great writer.
Software Engineers are superheroes in Hackathons!
Date: Jan 2020
They can build a product in 3 days (including ideation).
There's a concept I love called Anti-fragility.
Date: Jan 2020
It's an irrational idea that is very hard to wrap your head around.
Making your top player always do all of the work because it's faster is a bad idea
Date: Jan 2020
This applies not only for Engineering teams but for any group of people working together.
You can either be Smart like a Scientist or Creative like an Artist. WRONG!
Date: Jan 2020
I'll share a personal story with you.
One of the funny stories about Silicon Valley investments is Juicero
Date: Dec 2020
It's a juicing press that costs around $699 to buy, and you have to buy Juice packs for it.
One of the stories I love is the story of Marques Brownlee.
Date: Dec 2020
With over 10M subscribers, he is the go-to Youtuber when it comes to Tech/Gadget Reviews.
I started my career as a Software dev. and this was one of the tactics that helped me out in problem-solving.
Date: Dec 2020

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