Socializing real-life product endeavors in the form of Minimum Veracious Tweets (MVTs) 🐦
Feb 7, 2022 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
Theoretical Product Management is NOT enough!
A thread 🧵
#product#diaries#prodmgt
Recently, I went through the experience of obtaining a European driving license.
A little background:
I come from a country where obtaining a driving license is relatively easy. Street signs are meaningless most of the time.
Dec 29, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
⚔️ Ego is a product manager's worst enemy ⚔️
Early in the #product lifecycle, collecting feedback is of great value in shaping future strategy.
More often than not, PMs talk to customers in pursuit of affirmation, or acknowledgment falling into our good ol' Confirmation Bias.
The Confirmation bias stems from ego, we hate to be proven wrong, so we intentionally try to avoid feedback that distorts our carefully self crafted image of our dear products. There is a nice name for this, it's called the "Ostrich Effect".
Dec 28, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
✨ The Social Multiplier Effect In Product✨
"It is based on the principle that high levels of one attribute amongst one's peers can have spillover effects on an individual."
I.e., you are as good as the people you spend time with.
Three bricklayers are asked: “What are you doing?”
➡️ The first says, “I am laying bricks.”
➡️ The second says, “I am building a wall.”
➡️ And the third says, “I am building the house of God.”
#product#diaries
The first bricklayer has a job. The second has a career. The third has a calling.
In product, laying the bricks is the "HOW", building a wall is the "WHAT", and building a house of God is the "WHY".
Architects/Builders/Engineers want purpose, a WHY to operate with conviction.
Dec 27, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
🎯 Pyramid of Goals & The Ultimate Concern in Product 🎯
Recently I came across the Pyramid of Goals while reading @angeladuckw's book on #Grit.
It basically breaks down goals to Low-level, Mid-level,and Ultimate concern.
#product#productmanagement#productdiaries#pmdiaries
Ruinous Empathy might seem like the right thing to do but is short sighted and cause harm in the long term. Keep the empathy, drop the "ruinous" part by communicating feedback effectively, listening to understand not to speak back, this is not about you.
Oct 22, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Be a level-triggered product manager.
A hack I learned working with distributed systems for a while is reacting towards a state not to every tiny little change.