How to Build a Strong Career in Tech: A Thread. 2019, I gave a talk. 2020, I wrote an extensive article expanding the talk. 2021, I recorded a podcast distilling the article. 2022, I'm sharing below my favorite ideas researching this topic for past 3 years. 🧵🧵🧵

A neutron walks into a bar and asks how much for a drink. The bartender says, For you? No charge.

fascinating how, just as the video sponsorship thing reaches an unbearable volume, youtube introduces a "skip video sponsorship" feature

A16Z backing Adam Neumann's new venture made me remember this tweet

Heroku no longer offering a free plan is an extremely disappointing move. I have so many clients with basic apps deployed to Heroku who now will have to begin paying, so that's going to be a fun discussion.

As Product Managers, it's not as easy as figuring out what problems to solve for your customers You must *prioritize* them. A favorite framework top PMs use to facilitate the prioritization process. 🧵👇

Some companies give onerous take-home assignments (>10 hours) for PM interviews, thinking that is fine because candidates “excited about the job” will spend that time, but this filters out people who are serious about their *current* job and these are the people you need to hire.

Layoffs are brutal. But this is what a competent and compassionate one looks like. All CEOS can learn from this ⁦⁦Patrick Collison⁩ email to Stripe employees. There is a difference between what you do and how you do it. stripe.com/en-gb-nl/newsr…

Friendly reminder that if you have ADHD and you're feeling incredibly overwhelmed and behind on work, trying to just "force" yourself to sit down and do it will absolutely not work. You will end up just sitting there doing nothing. Take the time to reduce the overwhelm first.

don't get it twisted, the story today is still the thousands of people who were heartlessly fired theverge.com/2022/11/4/2344…

Product Management is a very conflict heavy role. - no one reports to you - your skill sets overlap with others - you’re sandwiched in the middle of the hierarchy between executives and contributors Conflict mitigation and management are critical skills to possess.

what a sentence

Singtel this morning:

Well, that's one way to do product management horribly wrong.

Much talk about how Silicon Valley Bank's collapse affects the global tech sector ignores how precarious its position was already. Indeed, SVB may have been another casualty of the Global Tech Winter. Read all about it in Rest of World's latest deep dive restofworld.org/2023/techs-bad…

Best roadmap rundown I've ever seen. 🔸 Linear denies uncertainty (and is false) 🔸 Diverging acknowledges uncertainty 🔸 Branching navigates uncertainty

Product managers are judged by the impact they drive for a business. PMs do this with continuous product execution. NOT to be confused with *project* execution. More in 🧵

PM is an insanely cross-functional role. On the same day, a PM can easily talk to designers, engineers, executives, data analysts, etc. etc. etc. But each of these roles focuses on & cares about different things. PMs need to tailor their communication to their audience.

Daily reminders for entrepreneurs: Overthinking —> Write Uninspired —> Read Scared —> Take one risk Stuck —> Walk Tired —> Sleep Confused —> Ask Frustrated —> Move Burned out —> Day off Impatient —> Review progress Unmotivated —> Remember your "why" You got this.

Here are some good LLM guides for for PMs