Monthly-ish Personal Update (Jul 2020)
An update on the not-so-new job, Write of Passage, and Coaching Project.
Chiara Cokieng
Meetings can be the best type of work.
Most people hate meetings. Weāve been indoctrinated with the belief that
meetings take us away from our āreal work.ā
In this post, I share a belief I have about the world that others donāt realize.
It is that meetings can be the best type of work.
People give
How I change careers so "easily"
In 8 years of working, Iāve held 4 different roles in 6 companies, based out of
3 countries.
I went from Management Consultant to Product Marketer. From People Manager to
Product Manager. Iāve worked for companies based in the Philippines, the US, and
Germany. This has enabled me
Don't make a hundred (product) decisions when one will do
One thing that pains me at work is when people perceive me to overthink. I donāt agree that I do š¤Ŗ
What I try to do is articulate decision criteria, product principles, and similar things, not for mental masturbation, but in order to make one generic decision that makes a
Platform Product Owner as vehicle and storyteller (and not domain expert)
In Julia Cameronās book The Right to Write, she says,
> When we are just the vehicle, the storyteller and not the point of the story, we
often write very wellāwe certainly write more easily.
This is true. Iām coming to see a big part of my
Thatās okay. This is the game I choose to play.
I have been randomly bursting into tears at work.
It has nothing to do with the company or the people I work with. It has
everything to do with me.
Why? I am not sure. Out of frustration, I guess.
All I know is, this happens in the first six
Sparring above your weight class
In high school, most of my friends were smarter than me. They went on to attend
Harvard, Stanford, MITā¦ So, yeah, graduating magna cum laude in the best
university in the Philippines? It was practically a requirement for me.
Professionally, I sign up for things I do not qualify for.
Thesis: Infrastructure Product Management is a unique category of PM-ing and needs its own best practices
To address this, I started by asking a Product Owner colleague of mine at Giant
Swarm, āHow is doing product here different from doing product in your previous
company?ā
The answer:
> Omg I donāt think thereās one thing that is the same š
Iāll start by thinking
A mini enlightenment
I had a mini enlightenment today.
I checked my morning run on Strava.
It reminded me that I havenāt ākudosā-ed anyone on Freeletics recently.
/And that I should go do that now./
Hereās the mini enlightenment. I stopped. And I thought, āYou know what? Just
because I
How do you measure if your product is providing real value? Itās enough to measure if your user is using it.
In this post, I want to make two arguments:
* Usage is positively correlated with Real Value.
* To measure if the user is getting Real Value from your product, itās good
enough to measure if the user Is Using your or Is Getting Nominal Value from
your product.
1-Generic Metrics