In my job, I sit in a lot of meetings (comes with the territory of the PM role). Whether or not that’s valuable is probably a separate piece to write but what I see too much of in this meeting is people bumbling through responses to executive questions. …

I’ve been a people manager for more than a decade and in all of those years I’ve found that one simple tip and an hour/month for a team member can make the people you manage happier AND more productive and generally make your job as a manager easier and more…

The purpose of this note is to share what I’ve learned in my journey for work-life balance in my career. Intro You’re looking at your team’s satisfaction survey results and see that work-life balance is low…again. Break out the brainstorms, create team-wide no-meeting times, etc. It helps…for about a month. Then…

When Data Alone Won’t Solve a Disagreement Your project is going along fine when all of a sudden you have the disagreement…you know, the one that you’ve had a hundred times before and you know won’t be solved easily. The disagreement comes in many forms, but it boils down to…

The purpose of this note is to lay out a philosophy to grow a product by focusing on user value (as opposed to hacks) and to explain why this type of growth is inextricably tied to a deep understanding of people-problems. Imagine that your manager just told you that your…