3 ways Clockwise has helped me become a 10x product manager Disclamer: I’m a PM at Clockwise and understandably biased, but all opinions below are my own. I’ve been a product manager for almost 15 years, and I’ve been lucky to learn so much over that time through trainings, from…

3 ways the job has changed during the pandemic — In a few months, many of us would have worked remotely for two years, thanks to a global pandemic. If it only takes 21 days to form a new habit, we’ve all indelibly changed the way we work after 700+ days of not being in the office. …

From the warmth of my living room, as I write this, I can see icicles hang menacingly from my roof — testament to a week of snow and near freezing weather for the week straddling the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022. …

5 quotes to help you navigate MegaCorp PM life I’ve been a PM at large tech firms for almost 15 years, and while the job can often be rewarding and exhilarating, there are times when, despite all your efforts and the best of advice. things just won’t go your way, …

3 product lessons for exceptional circumstances. — Black swan events are characterized by their extreme rarity, their severe impact, and the widespread insistence they were obvious in hindsight. — Nissim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan It’s a David-vs-Goliath story that captivated the world: in the last week of January 2021, a motley crew of individual investors bonding…

3 insights on how being a PM at a large company is different. There’s no dearth of content out there about what being a product manager is like, or even about how being a PM at a large company is different from being a PM at a startup. A lot…

Some contrarian thoughts on design, monetization, and teamwork. — A few years ago, one of my mentors handed me Peter Thiel’s book “Zero-to-one”. If you’ve read it (or even if you haven’t), you’ve probably come across his famous contrarian thought experiment: “What important truth do very few people agree with you on?” Truth is a very loaded word, but…

Looking for what to get hooked on next? One of the things I enjoy most about science fiction is the opportunity for world-building the medium affords. …

I learnt it’s not what they do, but how they do it. Life as a PM is mostly an orchestra of frenzy. There’s always the next spec to create, status reports to send, open issues to chase down, issues to clarify, research to synthesize, data to collate….you get the idea…