From the New York Times and Wired to Allure and Vox, everyone seems to be writing about digital fashion. For gamers like myself and our collaborators for the week at Master the Meta, this is a bit of a head-scratcher. Cosmetics have existed in games for over 20 years. So, the question of the day […]
Write a PRD The buzz is don’t write them, that’s for design & eng to build these. But what if you freed them up to work in Figma & code? In our remote world, a collaborative PRD that is iterative and not dictatorial can be high leverage work for a PM. Help QA PMs from […]
If there were ever an example of greatness, it would be Tom Brady. Starting from nothing as a backup QB on a lossless team his freshman year of high school, Tom Brady faced adversity every step of the way. At the University of Michigan, Tom had to watch from the bench as Brien Griese led […]
Feedback, used well, can multiply your impact. But 9/10 PMs use it wrong: Used sparingly This is the mistake 9/10 PMs make. They are team players, nice, and want to take on problems themselves. Feedback has to be used to shape the team to achieve the outcomes PMs are responsible for. So how should it […]
Too often, the literature focuses on what PMs should do. But what is the anti-pattern? What should PMs avoid doing? Trying to do everything The PM version of gluttony is trying to do everything. Being the “hero” PM does not mean doing everything, it means doing the right things. Acting like the boss “CEO of […]
Adjusting to your situation’s reality is a PM superpower. Good PMs can run the playbook they read about and have run well in the past. Great PMs adjust the playbook for the cultural context they are in. Situation adjustment separates good from great PMs. 3 examples of adjustments: 1. How empowered of a team you […]
As a product leader, and even PM, you can multiply your impact by helping constructively improve your team’s ability to deal with: 1. Unblocking themselves2. Signing up for Action Items (AIs) they won’t complete3. Being product, not feature, teams 1. Unblocking themselves Teaching your team how to translate strategy into implementation without you multiplies your […]
With pieces that have read times in the hundreds of minutes, The Generalist is like if Wikipedia were written by a fiction writer who worked in Venture Capital. It turns out, it kind of is that. Mario Gabriele has managed to forge one of the most unique media brands in the technology landscape. His deep […]
Amazon, Snap, and Google up double digits after earnings. Meta down double digits. It was a wild week in big tech, with advertising at the center of the story. Amazon finally disclosed its advertising revenue. As Benedict Evans noted, at $31B in 2021, it is roughly the size as the entire global newspaper industry. The […]
Years of school taught us to apply ourselves across all subjects so that we can get straight A’s. What this instills in us is that we must apply ourselves equally across all areas. In PM, this isn’t true. In fact, this behavior can hinder your success longer term and lead to burnout. “Always put in […]