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Product Manager: Sophomore Year

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Last year I wrote a short essay summarizing my first 365 days as a Product Manager. One more year has passed, and it is time to share more insights or learned lessons.

Important notice: It is only about my experience, so some things may not apply to what other PMs are experiencing. Product Management is a vast discipline with different responsibilities across different companies and industries.

New Blog version with MkDocs

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In early 2021, at the climax of the Covid-19 outbreak, locked up in the apartment with my wife and 6-month-old kid, I decided to have my blog. I will not dive into the reasoning there. I decided that sharing my thoughts on the media platform I own was a good idea.

My initial requirements were:

  • free hosting
  • own domain
  • control over the content and publishing capabilities

A static site generator, GitHub pages, and a custom domain name cover those points. Having a static site generator benefits in supporting the Markdown syntax, which I am using to write my notes. Plus, it is an additional technical challenge to configure and support that all by myself.

So my first choice was pretty obvious...

Thoughts about J. Gharajedaghi's "System Thinking"

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This is a new rubric in my blog as I tried to avoid any posts about specific books before. I am taking some notes about the best books I have read. But those are not for the public eye. So this piece was not originally planned to be published. I just feel a need to share something with the world after I read a book in the title. Because that was a wonderful but pretty tough experience.

Before we begin, let’s make clear that:

  • It is not a review. I will not write about bad books in my blog. By default, any book which has a separate essay is worth reading. Period.
  • That will be in the form of an internal dialog.

Product Manager: Year One

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One year has passed since I was promoted to a Product Manager position: first six months as an Associate (a Junior grade), and then I stepped in as a fully-fledged Product Manager. And that was a drastic shift that made me revisit some aspects of my work and added a new dimension to my view on product development.

In this essay, I want to summarize my experience with the insights I collected throughout the year. Some of them might be obvious to a more experienced audience. But for me, some were revelations, and some were hugely underestimated initially. It is a good exercise to conduct such a personal retrospective, and others can benefit from that as well.