I have always maintained that people who keep meticulous records of their daily habits are serial killers or psychopaths à la Patrick Bateman. At the beginning of this year, I decided I wanted to keep an eye on my goals for the year in a more quantitative manner, and it was surprisingly easier than IContinue reading “Tracking my goals through metrics”
Category Archives: Product
Influencer marketing
I happened to see the following tweet storm by Brianne Kimmel on Twitter and it got me thinking (spoiler alert: I agree with her). 1/ I'm calling it now, we'll see the end of influencer marketing this year. Brands are tired of working with influencers. Consumers are tired of seeing fake posts. Influencers are tiredContinue reading “Influencer marketing”
Learning from Robin Matlock
I spent two years of my life in business school, fell off the blog train, and have finally returned to the real world. I am now a product manager at VMware in Palo Alto, which is surreal when I think about it. I was drawn to Silicon Valley by the power of some invisible magnet;Continue reading “Learning from Robin Matlock”
Quantum Computing
Finishing the first year of my MBA at Anderson and starting an internship at one of the giants in Silicon Valley have so far served to make me more cynical than ever when it comes to innovation. It’s not like I was particularly optimistic to begin with, but now I visibly cringe when I hearContinue reading “Quantum Computing”
Vanity vs Sanity
I just read a great post by Dan Wolchonok at HubSpot about the impact of retention on user growth and revenue. At face value, this sounds pretty darn obvious, but really it isn’t until you see the models that you realize just how much of an impact this one metric can have on your product.Continue reading “Vanity vs Sanity”
Fake it till you make it
I recently met with my friend and former colleague, and over a few drinks we started talking about how our careers have panned out. While I’m fairly happy with what I’ve done so far, his trajectory has been extraordinary. When I asked him how he did it, he told me Perception is everything. He startedContinue reading “Fake it till you make it”
How not to find a mentor
In order to succeed in the tech world, the most frequently touted piece of advice is to find a mentor—a mentor is someone you aspire to be and has probably been down the same path that you have. And then of course, there is advice about how to find a mentor. Follow them on Twitter. AskContinue reading “How not to find a mentor”
Data first
It’s been a while since I last blogged, and I can only say that I’ve been managing my time poorly! I really need to get better at this. In an ideal world, I’d like to come out with one blog per day, but I feel like I would be setting myself up to fail, whichContinue reading “Data first”
The deluge of email
A friend once joked that product management is 20% talking and 80% email. Even with modern collaboration tools like Slack, most PMs I know still send and receive lots of email. Ken Norton in “How I Manage My Inbox“ Most days on the job, I feel like all I do is reply to an endlessContinue reading “The deluge of email”
Product Manager: Spiderman or Peter Parker?
Most people in the tech industry can attest to the fact that the definitions of roles vary across industries and companies. This definitely holds true for product management. In smaller companies, it isn’t unusual for a product manager to be an analyst, a UX designer and a project manager rolled into one. However in largerContinue reading “Product Manager: Spiderman or Peter Parker?”