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Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people
A guide to scaling product & engineering teams from $0 to past $100M ARR
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A guide to scaling product & engineering teams from $0 to past $100M ARR
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Your small imprecise ask is a big waste of their time
When managers and leaders don't specify the expected time investment of an ask, the time that is invested is almost never what was intended.
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Build your career on dirty work
The Dirty Work Theory: The lamentable work that many people avoid are great places to look for high impact, low hanging fruit.
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It’s easier to manage four people than one person
A guide to scaling product & engineering teams from $0 to past $100M ARR
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A manager is not your best friend
As people become managers, it's quite common for their team members to want to commiserate with them. This is especially true for friendly, competent, reasonable-seeming managers – people want to commiserate with winners. But commiseration, especially with your direct reports, is organizational poison.
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Unlimited is like a Ponzi Scheme
You shouldn’t be surprised when unlimited ends, because unlimited is more often than not an unsustainable Ponzi Scheme.
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Optimize Onboarding
A guide to scaling product & engineering teams from $0 to past $100M ARR
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Competitive Analysis for Engineers
In my experience, most professional software engineers in industry have little to no experience doing competitive analysis. That’s a shame, because competitive analysis is one of the most useful skills that an engineer can have.
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Don't build useless features
One of the most important core product management skills is the ability to triage unsuccessful products and avoid spending unnecessary effort on products that are destined to be losers.