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People in product roles always put their customer first. But who puts them first? As a Product leader, your product team is your priority. It's your job to put them first.
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Real Confidence Comes From a Stack of Evidence, Not a Feeling (opens the original)
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We start out confident. Then something that feels impossible, at least in the moment, knocks that unstoppable feeling out of us. For me, it was a frog.A frog is at the bottom of a well that is 30 feet deep. Each day, the frog jumps 3 feet up, but it slides down 2 feet back down each night. How many days will it take for the frog to reach the top and escape?My dad solved it in his head. I couldn’t. He sighed. I felt foolish. That was the beginning of the “I’m not enough” stories I carried for yea
How to Navigate a Reorg Without Losing Your Shot (opens the original)
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Every company seems to be going through a reorg right now. If you’re eyeing a role change during one, you already know it’s a special kind of confidence killer.Sara was doing everything right as she looked to shift from ecomm to product. She’d built a real relationship with Lauren, the SVP supporting the new CPO through a major product org transformation. She’d been named a DRI in early planning docs. She was invited into core product meetings. She kept her current team running while quietly pos
Don't Let AI Decimate Your Professional Network (opens the original)
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Adam looked at his phone for a long moment before he answered me. “I don’t actually know who I’d contact.”That should have surprised me. Adam is smart, experienced, and well-connected. He’s the type of person others contact for advice. He’s in the middle of a career transition, which is exactly when you’d expect him to reach to his network.The race to “keep up with AI” is taxing our relationships. The invisible cost is social capital, and the bill comes due when you need help.Instead, Adam stare
Your Strategy Didn’t Fail. Your Foundation Did. (opens the original)
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I’ve been in enough postmortems to know the strategy usually didn’t fail.The foundation did.Across companies and roles, I keep meeting three types of people. Only one tends to be recognized. The difference between teams that stall and teams that ship is whether leadership sees and supports all three.Subscribe nowHere is a quick overview so we can dive into tackling the gap.1. The Strategist (aka the one in the meetings)Sets direction and owns the roadmap
Ambitious People Need More Than Your Job (opens the original)
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A New York Times writer observed something about AI search that is stuck in my head. Our tools are treating the space between question and answer as time to eliminate. But that space, the unplanned discovery and things you find only because you weren’t looking, is where most learning happens.You used to search for one thing and stumble onto five. Now you search and get exactly what you asked for. Nothing more. The learning detour is removed.I keep thinking about this in the context of banning of
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