Product Track: Start Here (April 2024)

Level up your product skills and accelerate your PM career

This track is for you if you want to:

Level up your product skills and accelerate your PM career

It has my best guides and interviews after 10+ years working at top companies like Amazon, Meta, and Roblox.

Free subscribers can preview my subscriber-only posts (🔒), interview recordings, and personal templates. Upgrade to paid to get full access:

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Break into product

Guides

1. How to land a great job in tech
   A practical guide to getting your mind right, making a plan, and landing your dream offer

2. 10 advanced tips to ace your PM behavioral interviews 🔒
   Avoid these common mistakes when interviewing at top tech companies

Coming soon

1. Three proven ways to transition to product management
   Why I failed to transition for 3 years and how you can avoid my mistakes

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Explore PM career paths

Guides

1. 10 lessons from my journey as a product leader and creator
   Product leaders and creators have more in common than you think

2. How the PM role is evolving and what you can do about it 🔒
   How to get ahead of the curve in today's challenging PM job environment

Interviews

1. Growing from product manager to product leader
   Ethan Evans (Ex-VP Amazon) on how to get promoted and navigate career setbacks

2. Real talk about the PM career from a growth veteran
   Fareed Mosavat (Growth Advisor) on how to look beyond job titles to chart your own path

3. How to advance your product management career part 1, part 2 🔒
   Nikhyl Singhal (VP Meta) on navigating the middle and late stages of your product career, finding the right company to join, and knowing when to switch companies

4. How to manage up and build high-impact teams 🔒
   Dave Kline (ex-Bridgewater) on how to manage up well, delegate, and help others grow

5. Why Shopify elevated the non-manager PM path and ditched meetings 🔒
   Kaz Nejatian (COO, Shopify) on the difference between crafters and managers

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Understand customer problem

Guides

1. Understand, identify, and execute
   A useful framework for building products and managing your career

2. Why community led product development wins
   How to build community to build better products

3. How to talk to customers to gather useful insights
   Talk to customers about their problems, not about your product

4. How to apply “jobs to be done” to your product 🔒
   Top 5 ways to use "jobs to be done" to understand customer problems

Interviews

1. How Notion builds products with the community 🔒
   Akshay Kothari (COO, Notion) on how to build a great customer community

Coming soon

1. Amazon’s working backwards 🔒
   Apply Amazon’s customer obsession process with these simple questions

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Identify vision and strategy

Guides

1. Let’s have some real talk about product strategy 🔒
   A no-nonsense guide that anyone can follow to create a great product strategy

Interviews

1. How to define your product and career strategy
   Ravi Mehta (Ex-CPO Tinder) on the product strategy stack

2. How to crack your product strategy 🔒
   Jackie Bavaro (Author, Cracking the PM interview) on how to craft strategy

3. How to evaluate gen AI use cases 🔒
   Barak Turovsky (exec in residence) on who will capture the most value in the AI stack

4. How gen AI will reshape how we learn, connect, shop, and create 🔒
   Connie Chan (A16z general partner) on how AI will transform our everyday lives

Coming soon

1. How to craft a great roadmap 🔒
   Balance your big bets, quick wins, and experiments

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Craft products you’re proud of

Guides

1. Let’s replace product sense with the skills that actually matter
   Product sense is really 3 separate skills - empathy, creativity, and craft

2. The day you stopped making compromises on product quality
   How to craft products that you’re proud of

3. 10 proven tactics to elevate product quality 🔒
   Life's too short to "shiterate" on products that nobody wants

4. Four product principles that drove Instagram’s success 🔒
   Why every product team needs principles to guide their decision making

Interviews

1. 5 proven rituals to level up your product team 🔒
   Lane Shackleton (CPO Coda) on crafting a vision, hosting product reviews, and more

2. PM lessons from Google, Meta, and Microsoft 🔒
   Amit Fulay (VP Microsoft) on his personal lessons from top tech companies

3. How to apply game design to create emotion 🔒
   Rahul Vohra (founder, Superhuman) on why great PMs obsess about emotions

4. Inside how Figma Built FigJam AI 🔒
   Yuhki Yamashita (CPO Figma) on how PMs can work with designers and more

5. Inside how Shopify built its generative AI products 🔒
   Miqdad Jaffer (AI lead) with a behind-the-scenes look at how gen AI products are built

6. Inside how Discord builds products and communities 🔒
   Rick Ling (ex-head of commuunity products) on Discord’s product principles

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Be world-class at execution

Guides

1. The secret to effective written communication
   Use my 3S framework to make your writing simple, short, and specific

2. How to make great decisions async and avoid endless meetings
   Follow these 5 steps to take back your time from meetings

3. How to run meetings that don’t suck 🔒
   The 4 types of meetings and how to make each one actually useful

4. How to listen well to build trust 🔒
   5 steps to become a better listener

Interviews

1. How to run great experiments 🔒
   Eric Metelka (CPO Eppo) on the nuances of running great A/B tests

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Subscriber-only recordings and templates

Paid subscribers will get access to my interview recordings and personal templates for:

1. Career plan

2. Strategy

3. Product spec

4. Promo assessment

5. Decision doc

6. PM interview prep

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