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30 Dec 20, 19 tweets, 5 min read
🗓️Recap of Dec 2020 content

Includes:
-10 Commandments of PM
-Things to unlearn after school
-Incompetent Leader’s playbook
-Your Manager's Manager
-Creative Ideas How-To
-Resources for new PMs
-On org behavior
-On tranquility
-On mediocrity
-2020 best reads
& more...

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 The 10 Commandments of Product Management
(#3 is tongue-in-cheek😄)

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 Things we need to unlearn after school
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 The Incompetent Leader’s (IL) playbook and what to do about it
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 On the Focusing Illusion, Bikeshedding, and the reasons why you never heard back from Your Manager’s Manager (YMM) after preparing that deck they requested
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 For Creative Ideas
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 Most of my content is targeted to senior PMs & leaders. Here’s a departure from that pattern, with a thread of resources for new & aspiring PMs (and others who want to better understand the PM role)
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 A recap of my writing on organizational behavior, psychology, culture
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 A recap of my writing on living life & finding tranquility
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 To achieve what you want in 2021 and beyond, consider mediocrity as an asset
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 A roundup of some of my favorite reading & recos from 2020
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 5 recommended books for Engineering Managers & Tech Leads who work with product teams
12/
 This > That
14/
 When is a company no longer considered a startup?
(h/t @hnshah for the question)

One possible answer:
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 On the fallacies that cause Twitter arguments
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 On ways to be unhappy on Twitter
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 On product metrics
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It would help me immensely to get your feedback.

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30 Dec 20
Recap of my 2020 content, in one place

A thread of threads of threads:
H1 2020 product content
H1 2020 non-product content
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30 Dec 20
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?

Answers in this thread👇🏾
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.

The Focusing Illusion:
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.
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28 Dec 20
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.

contd.👇🏾
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25 Dec 20
A recap of tweets & threads on success, fulfillment, tranquility, and on discovering the path for ourselves:

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 If we want success, we must first define it for ourselves.

Too many of us inherit our family’s, friends’, colleagues’, media’s portrayal of it.

It took me a couple of decades to figure out my personal heuristic for success:
2/
 Tactics are tempting.
Don’t just seek the right Tactics.
Seek the right Principles & Mindset.

This observation is the foundation of much of my writing.
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24 Dec 20
A recap of tweets & threads on organizational psychology, organizational behavior, and company culture:

(strap in, this will be a wild ride)

1/20
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 The fundamental framework to make sense of organizational conduct:
2/
 Wondering why your company has suddenly become less fun for you as a builder? This framework might help explain it:
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22 Dec 20
A How-to for Creative Ideas

1) Step out of the GTD mindset
2) Identify the main goals
3) Eliminate core assumptions
4) Ignore trade-offs
5) Connect unrelated concepts
6) Solicit many ideas
7) Take a break, percolate
8) Simulate the promising ideas
9) Validate the surviving ideas
The trouble with most companies w.r.t. creativity
A thread on preparing oneself for creative work
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