Reflections on being laid off and the 1-to-0 transition. What losing your job teaches about addiction to work, identity, and finding happiness.
Yesterday I was fired 🔥
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The Dark Side of Authority
Why using authority to decide can hurt your team’s growth. Learn the power of influence over formal authority in product management and leadership.
The Abuse of Tech Debt
Tech debt is often misused as a magic incantation to prioritize engineering work. A classification and root-cause analysis of how tech debt is abused.
I Am Not a Writer — Not Even a Native English Speaker
How a non-native English speaker published 16 articles in one year. Personal lessons on overcoming the fear of writing and pressing publish.
One Ring to Stitch Them All and in the Land of API Bind Them
How GraphQL schema stitching solves the complexity of multiple REST APIs. A platform product manager’s perspective on API strategy.
Radical + Optimist
Why being optimistic?
We have to visualize, dream and tell positive stories about the world we want to build. This requires a healthy dose of radical optimism.
The pyramid of the product manager needs (Maslow inspired)
A Maslow-inspired visual mental model for the product manager role across five layers: ecosystem, artifacts, team, stakeholders, and strategy.