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24 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Courage is perhaps the least discussed attribute of highly successful product people and among the most vital.

It sounds too elementary, so most people don't consider courage when they are evaluating how to maximize their impact.
Adding some more thoughts/examples:

Without courage, ambition cannot be born nor realized.

7 examples of courage starting here:

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11 Jun
A few recommendations, in no particular category or order:
The Psychology of Money by @morganhousel

I am not the first nor the last person to recommend this superb book. I wish this book existed when I was in my 20s & 30s, so I could have avoided making dozens of money mistakes. As a bonus, it also provides A+ lessons on clear thinking.
The Mom Test by @robfitz

Some followers had recommended this book to me before. I finally got around to reading it in 2021.

IMO it is a must-read for founders, PMs, engineers, etc. who are building B2B/SaaS products. (will help you avoid many mistakes & get to the Truth faster)
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6 Jun
As a leader, how can you
- Make a major, singular impact
- Truly empower team members
- Grow them with “stretch tasks”
- Create flow for self & others
- Avoid burnout

Answer: Radical Delegation

(note: not for everyone, but game-changing for leaders & teams who are ready for it)
If you look around, especially in fast-paced fast-growth companies, product leaders & their teams are underwater at best & often just burning out.

Too often, leaders think that’s just the way things *have* to be.

Radical Delegation shows that there is a different, better way.
This framework starts with the work that must be done i.e. it assumes you’ve already discarded work that you should not be paying attention to. In fast-paced, fast-growing companies, the work that remains is still *a lot*. Most leaders tend to take on all of that work themselves.
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4 Jun
Context Matters Most, a short story:

Meet Bob, a Product Manager at Acme Inc.

After 2½ years of being a PM on his current team, he is excited to take on a new challenge as PM in a different org at Acme.

Here’s what his manager had to say about Bob's work thus far as a PM:
Fast-forward 6 months. Things are not going so well for Bob on his new team.

Here’s what his new manager has to say about Bob's work over these 6 months:
Same person, same behaviors, different contexts, very different outcomes.
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1 Jun
🗓️Recap of May 2021 content:

Black Turtleneck Fallacy
Valuing time
Product clarity exercise
Instinct matters in product
Success + Tranquility
Recognizing happiness
Simple stuff
Transactional managers
% confidence
Writer's block for PMs
A tragedy of many orgs
and more..

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The Black Turtleneck Fallacy
When allocating their time, most people just seek a positive ROI. To achieve much greater outcomes in lesser time, you should instead seek to minimize Opportunity Cost. Probably the most valuable thing I will ever say, especially for senior product folks.
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30 May
A thread of product management frameworks:

(this might be useful if you are a product manager, product leader, or founder)
Before we jump in:

Frameworks will not fix all your problems.

Used right, they should help you
1) better understand your context
2) create structure for problems
3) communicate ideas & solutions

I often use these frameworks in my product work, sometimes without realizing it.
1/
 3X framework (Kent Beck)

A product can be in one of 3 stages
1. Explore
2. Expand
3. Extract

For product leaders this is the most vital framework to understand because almost every important decision should account for the stage your product is in.

medium.com/@kentbeck_7670…
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16 May
An approach to run working sessions

-Pre-read

-Set clear goals & agenda upfront

-Alternate betwn Quiet Time & Discussion Time twice/thrice in 1 hr

-People work on their own in Quiet Time (talking forbidden)

-Share the work in Discussion Time

-Repeat

If you use this for the right things, you'll accomplish a lot more than constant talking for 1 hr

Another thing:
Much of the business world's processes are highly optimized for extroverts. This approach creates a more balanced structure for introverts & extroverts to contribute.
Below is a concrete example of this working session approach, for pre-mortems. The @coda_hq template linked in this tweet provides the end-to-end structure for you to run such a working session.
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