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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 see a preview of my subscriber-only posts (π), interview recordings, and personal templates. Upgrade to paid to get full access:
Break into product
Guides
How to land a great job in tech
A practical guide to getting your mind right, making a plan, and landing your dream offer10 advanced tips to ace your PM behavioral interviews π
Avoid these common mistakes when interviewing at top tech companies
Coming soon
Three proven ways to transition to product management
Why I failed to transition for 3 years and how you can avoid my mistakes
Explore PM career paths
Guides
10 lessons from my journey as a product leader and creator
Product leaders and creators have more in common than you think
Interviews
Growing from product manager to product leader
Ethan Evans (Ex-VP Amazon) on how to get promoted and navigate career setbacksHow to manage up and build high-impact teams π
Dave Kline (ex-Bridgewater) on how to manage up well, delegate, and help others growWhy Shopify elevated the non-manager PM path and ditched meetings π
Kaz Nejatian (COO, Shopify) on the difference between crafters and managers
Coming soon
The great PM career reset and what you can do about it π
How the PM role is evolving and how you can get ahead of the curve
Understand customer problem
Guides
Why community led product development wins
How to build community to build better productsHow to talk to customers to gather useful insights
Talk to customers about their problems, not about your productHow to apply βjobs to be doneβ to your product π
Top 5 ways to use "jobs to be done" to understand customer problems
Interviews
How Notion builds products with the community π
Akshay Kothari (COO, Notion) on how to build a great customer community
Coming soon
Amazonβs working backwards π
Apply Amazonβs customer obsession process with these simple questions
Identify vision and strategy
Interviews
How to define your product and career strategy
Ravi Mehta (Ex-CPO Tinder) on the product strategy stackHow to crack your product strategy π
Jackie Bavaro (Author, Cracking the PM interview) on how to craft strategyHow to evaluate gen AI use cases π
Barak Turovsky (exec in residence) on who will capture the most value in the AI stackHow gen AI will reshape how we learn, connect, shop, and create π
Connie Chan (A16z general partner) on how AI will transform our everyday lives
Coming soon
My honest take on mission, vision, strategy, goals, and roadmap π
Itβs not a game of checking all the boxesThe best strategy framework Iβve come across after 10 years as a PM π
Good strategy, bad strategyHow to craft a great roadmap π
Balance your big bets, quick wins, and experiments
Craft products youβre proud of
Guides
Letβs replace product sense with the skills that actually matter
Product sense is really 3 separate skills - empathy, creativity, and craftThe #1 equation for making irresistible products
How to make an offer so good that people feel stupid for saying noThe day you stopped making compromises on product quality
How to craft products that youβre proud of and stop βshiteratingβFour product principles that drove Instagramβs success π
Why every product team needs principles to guide their decision making
Interviews
5 proven rituals to level up your product team π
Lane Shackleton (CPO Coda) on crafting a vision, hosting product reviews, and more
PM lessons from Google, Meta, and Microsoft π
Amit Fulay (VP Microsoft) on his personal lessons from top tech companiesHow to apply game design to create emotion π
Rahul Vohra (founder, Superhuman) on why great PMs obsess about emotionsInside how Discord builds products and communities π
Rick Ling (ex-head of commuunity products) on Discordβs product principles
Be world class at execution
Guides
The secret to effective written communication
Use my 3S framework to make your writing simple, short, and specificHow to make great decisions async and avoid endless meetings
Follow these 5 steps to take back your time from meetingsHow to run meetings that donβt suck π
The 4 types of meetings and how to make each one actually usefulHow to listen well to build trust π
5 steps to become a better listener
Interviews
How to run great experiments π
Eric Metelka (CPO Eppo) on the nuances of running great A/B tests
Subscriber-only recordings and templates
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Career plan
Strategy
Product spec
Promo assessment
Decision doc
PM interview prep
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