Fantastic guide to justifying social media or side gigs even if you have a full-time job:

Needing to charge for replies to eliminate bots doesn’t make sense.

X should just hire senior engineers who built it at any of:

• Facebook
• Reddit
• YouTube
• LinkedIn

Or any of the other social networks who don’t have the same problem.

Product central planning is PM’s modern boogeyman. It’s real.

It seems to be infecting everyone. But that doesn’t make it right.

I have so many amazing collaborations cooking right now it's wild:

• Inside access to the product strategy at Dovetail and Attio, including VP of Product interviews
• In the trenches example of transformation from a product leader
• DEEP research into the product leadership…

How To Know You're In a Feature Factory

(h/t Aakash Gupta)

Really enjoyed this discussion with Shravan Tickoo's awesome PM cohort, now available on YouTube:

youtube.com/watch?v=7HKFk4…

Not a bad list of PM concepts 🙃

Advice for PMs: “If everyone is really annoyed with you, you’re probably actually doing your job well.”

—david desanto, GitLab CPO with Lenny Rachitsky

Haha, right in the guts Aakash Gupta

Anecdotally not the only laid off PM finding it was a blessing in disguise.

The golden handcuffs are off, they’re building, and making more than ever.

Create content that no one else can make but you.

This is the essence of the Personal Monopoly approach.

Regular leadership updates like these work magic for strategic alignment in a remote environment.