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Letter to Oli: On Craft, Quality, and Founders Podcast

Hi Oli, I like to visit your website every 6 months or so, and today was one of those days. I found your public letters to your sister Joana fascinating and it made me want to do the same. That’s why I’m writing this letter, in response to

Why copywriting might be the most underrated skill for product managers

A friend and I were texting about studying writing. As a product manager who used to be a copywriter, I've always believed copywriting might be one of the most underrated skills for product managers. I finally took the time to write why. Why is copywriting so important and

The product challenge of creating Tools for Thought

There's an interesting discussion going on in Craft's Slack Community. Thread. The gist: In his podcast with Metamuse, CEO and Founder Balint talks about Craft being primarily a tool for thought. A real tool for thought must remove all friction for users to dump thoughts easily

What's it like to be a Product Manager in a very technical domain you're not familiar with?

A Twitter thread.

Lean B2B: Build Products Businesses Want

Customer Development & Lean Startup in B2B

Getting to Plan B

I smashed through [https://www.chiaracokieng.com/just-in-time-reading-how-to-use-books-to-solve-problems/] Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model [https://amzn.to/3s61XNo]. Below are my notes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Process Find suitable analogs and antilogs, identify leaps of faith time and again, and build a dashboard with metrics to guide

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 don’t agree that I do 🤪 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