Ken Norton

MAY 13, 2021

The classic essay that defined the product manager role -. Updated in 2021, this is the classic essay by Ken Norton that defined the role of product management and launched thousands of PM careers. What is product management? What does a product manager do? What makes a great product manager, and how do you become one?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2023

Here’s one such example: [link] How to Hire a Product Manager | Ken Norton Ken Norton’s essay suggests questions that can be used in a structured interview. Should your rubric evolve as you proceed, you may re-engage earlier candidates using the revised rubric. He also highlights the significance of product Spidey sense (#3).

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Andrew Chen

AUGUST 23, 2023

Usually the essays are scheduled to go out Monday/Tuesday morning at 9am The day the post goes out, I do a light proof-read and then once it goes out, I write a tweetstorm directing traffic This whole process has served me well for years. I’ve been writing for hours!) Be opinionated.

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Sachin Rekhi

MAY 18, 2022

In 2004, Bezos and team came across an essay by Edward Tufte , a Yale professor who is an authority on the visualization of information. The linear progression of slides also made it difficult to easily refer from one idea to another, making it difficult for reviewers to properly interrogate inter-related ideas for merit.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The book also includes an essay about how there is no silver bullet for improving productivity (that’s right, implementing SAFe won’t suddenly make everything better). 3 Making Things Happen Making Things Happen is a collection of practical essays from an ex-Microsoft project management veteran.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2020

This in-depth essay by our SVP of Product, Paul Adams, explains the processes we use to build product, and details how product teams operate. We learn by doing, as Principal Product Designer Gustavs Cirulis points out in this thoughtful essay. We hope you find it informative. Lessons learned from scaling a product team.

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Crafty CTO

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In my July essay An Appllama Week in AI , I mentioned that Apple “might get pinched” because they move much slower than the AI space is moving.

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ProductCraft

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I took a lot of notes on the lessons I’ve learned along the way, and this essay shortlists the top 10, prioritized by practicality and non-obviousness so. As we start a new decade, I took a lot of time to reflect on my nearly ten years working in product.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Alongside posts on the thinking behind our latest products and features, we also published essays and podcasts about the challenges posed by the pandemic , how we made the transition to remote work , how we thought about diversity and allyship , and more. A refuge from uncertainty in a year that needed it.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 7, 2023

We Need a Posse In my last essay about writing, I touched on IndieWeb’s POSSE principles and that seemed like a great opportunity for an illustration. I gave it three tries and it was a win–at least in the sense that it gave me the subject matter for this little essay. Today I received an announcement Runway Gen-2 is now.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 11, 2022

Essays: The Art of Being Compelling | Engaging in Product Debates | The Most Underrated Product Management Skill: Influence Without Authority. Video: How to Master Influencing Without Authority. Slides: How to Master Influencing Without Authority. In June I was invited by Dan Olsen to speak at the Lean Product Meetup.

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ProductBoard

MARCH 11, 2021

Find this essay and more in our ebook, The Path to Product Excellence: Stories and Advice From the Field. Written prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, this forward-thinking piece from Courtney Machi, VP Product at Andela, explains how working remotely can make you a better product manager.

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Sachin Rekhi

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Essay: Designing Your Product's Continuous Feedback Loop. I decided to expand upon an essay I originally wrote in 2016 about developing a continuous feedback loop for your product with detailed case studies of how I have implemented such a feedback loop for my current startup, Notejoy , as well as while leading LinkedIn Sales Navigator.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Benedict Evans With many years as VC and strategy consultant, Ben Evans also provides newsletters and essays “ about what’s happening in tech that actually matters, and what it means ” (in his own words). Andrew Chen Not very active nowadays, but Andrew Chen has over 650 essays, slightly oriented to startups, marketing, and growth.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 3, 2023

I actually have enough content between larger essays and smaller micro formats that I’m having trouble finding my own stuff. After fixing my image processing woes , I decided to tackle site search. I surveyed the field, which included local JS options such as lunr.js and fuse.js, as well as external options like Algolia.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

This collection of essays sheds light on each of these aspects of the product manager's role in designing great products. This collection of essays provides an overview of each of these execution activities. These essays touch upon some of the unique aspects of product leadership. Leadership. A Career in Product Management.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The range of work we do as product managers is so broad that we inevitably end up finding inspiration from all sorts of sources, whether it’s books on business strategy or essays on design. If you are operating on a maker’s schedule, meetings are a disaster (see Paul Graham’s famous essay about it). Avoid unnecessary meetings.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2023

If after reading this essay, you still aren’t planning to even bootstrap OKRs with GQM, consider this alternative: GQM excels where OKRs aren’t specifically intended — in comprehensively assessing the metrics required to measure the operational success of a product. Determine actions that most effectively improve the metrics.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 24, 2023

I'm working on a Crafty's Illustrated essay, and plan to give V5.2 This Midjourney update looks fantastic. a thorough workout when it's time for imagery.

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Crafty CTO

JULY 10, 2023

Recently, I wrote a short essay about an unpleasant discovery I made with ChatGPT’s dark pattern whereby, if you want to turn off “train your models using my chats,” you need to disable one of ChatGPT’s nicest features, chat history. Here’s the dialog in question: The update is that there may be a workaround.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

For example, a student can submit an essay to AI and ask for feedback on how it can be improved. By analyzing the essay’s structure, grammar, and content, AI algorithms can provide detailed feedback on areas such as clarity, organization, vocabulary usage and even if there are enough evidence to support the main plot in the story.

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 11, 2019

Just eight years ago, Marc Andreessen, co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser, and co-founder of Netscape, popularized the adage “ software is eating the world ” in an essay in The Wall Street Journal. Regardless of their traditional businesses, companies now often view themselves as software or data companies.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Titles become essays. The best example of this in my work is “ Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing ” which started out as a tweet with 20+ shares, and then was developed into an essay afterwards. I’m still getting traffic – and email feedback – on essays I wrote ten years ago, which is insane!

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Sachin Rekhi

OCTOBER 10, 2018

It's a difficult book to summarize because it's organized as 100+ mini-essays that succinctly teach a specific best practice around optimizing your team, your product, and yourself. This essay served as that exact foil to the above. By doing so, Scott is sharing the real-world balance and trade-offs inherent in any tactic.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 29, 2023

As Ott says, I already knew that blogging – and having a personal website in general – is a superpower … I had heard before of Vannevar Bush’s groundbreaking essay “As We May Think” that directly inspired the invention of hypertext by Ted Nelson and Douglas Engelbart, which, in turn, had a huge influence on the WorldWideWeb project.

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NextBigWhat

JANUARY 31, 2022

Excellent essays attract excellent people. Since writing is a record of your best ideas, your essays will double as a resume that demonstrates your intellectual rigor. That’s why writing regularly wakes you up and makes your mind come alive. Writing establishes expertise. Writing attracts opportunities.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Original Essay: 5 Paths To Your First Product Manager Role. Listen: SoundCloud | PMLesson. Transcript: PMLesson. I was recently invited on the PMLesson podcast to share the 5 most common paths to landing your first product management role.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Where to find Matthew Dicks: • Website: [link] • X: [link] • LinkedIn: [link] • YouTube: [link] • Storyworthy: [link] Where to find Lenny: • Newsletter: [link] • X: [link] • LinkedIn: [link] In this episode, we cover: ( 00:00 ) Matthew’s background ( 04:27 ) The five-second moment ( 10:29 ) Knowing (..)

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Sachin Rekhi

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Essay: The Art of Being Compelling as a Product Manager. Video: The Art of Being Compelling as a Product Manager. Slides: The Art of Being Compelling as a Product Manager.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Essays: The Art of Being Compelling | Engaging in Product Debates. Video: The Style of Product Management. Slides: The Style of Product Management. In January I was invited to Atlassian to share my wisdom on product management with the global product organization.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2019

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering , by Frederick P Brooks, Jr. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, by Frederick P Brooks, Jr. Loving – and hating – Jira and Confluence. Links mentioned in this episode. – US / UK / DE. Follow Joff on Twitter. Links mentioned in this episode.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 27, 2018

It’s a series of self-contained excerpts and essays from industry leaders who have grown businesses from $0 to many billions in revenue. There aren’t silver bullets or one size fits all answers to any of these common growth hurdles, but we can still learn a great deal from those who’ve ran the course before us.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

It’s not just that he’s extremely prolific – it’s the quality and depth of his tweets (and his longer essays ) that reach deep into the heart of what we’re struggling with on a daily basis – especially his post 12 Signs You’re working in a Feature Factory.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 26, 2021

Furthermore, the professors and educators have to check the homework, test essays, find a teaching plan, plan for the following sessions, etc. Whether it is listing paperwork, forwarding emails and information, reaching learners and their progenitors, or obtaining reports, the official staff continually manages every day.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 4, 2020

My dungeon shook – letter to my nephew : James Baldwin’s 1962 essay, which became half of his classic book The Fire Next Time , remains one of the most powerful personal reflections on the history of race relations in the US. King was assassinated the next day.

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Andrew Chen

JULY 31, 2022

I’ll be sharing more about what I learned in my journey in writing and publishing the book in a future essay — and all my random life hacks for clearing out a few hours every week to put it together. But as of last December, it’s finally out in the world, and I want to thank all of you for making it a success.

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ProductCraft

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

You might recognize him as a contributor on ProductCraft who wrote a series of essays about the similarities between raising start-ups and kids (spoiler. This week on Product Love, I sit down with Todd Olson, CEO of Pendo, a product cloud that brings product analytics, user feedback, and guided user engagement into one integrated platform.

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