Two pieces of career advice that general apply across roles: Firstly, always align features, ideas, etc. with business objectives or an OKR, e.g. higher conversion & retention, reduce churn. There is often a “one metric that matters” and no matter your role in the company, clearly communicating how you impact that metric is super important….
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Problems Worth Solving
Every company is host to a diverse range of roles. For example, a product manager is responsible for identifying 1) what problems are worth solving and 2) what features are needed to solve that problem. Engineers and designers are then responsible for owning how that gets done, with insight and prioritization from the product manager…
Why You Should Be Someone Who Propels
We all have things we want to do, but don’t. To chip away at that statistic I encourage you to be someone who propel others to be the person they want to be – especially when they themselves aren’t quite there yet. And if possible, do this through vulnerability. For example, there are two types…
Writing Every Day Is Cool, But What About Singing Every Day…
Jonathan Mann started writing a song a day every day at age 26, now over 4,000+ consecutive days. He has a pretty incredible story, from Steve Job using one of his song to open for an Apple press conference to setting the world record for most consecutive days writing songs. When I discovered Jonathan’s channel…
Value Systems
Humans are so unique. With nuanced actions completely differently from yours. This can be confusing. That is, until you understand their value system. And then it makes a lot more sense as you begin to see their actions as a result of something further up stream. Photo by Dave Herring on Unsplash.
