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19 September
18 September
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If you enjoy calls, you're probably a manager not a maker https://t.co/CmUTfFxVgZ https://t.co/ZslI1JXbZW
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26 August
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The reason I say that is there's a lot of programmers who are not very good product managers. Software is product management. What should it do? Who should it do it for? How should it do it? How should it look? What are our priorities? What do we start with first? What does version one include? All of those skills are not easily or equally distributed across all programmers.
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From one piece This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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hiring so many PMs infantilizes the engineers and the designers who are perfectly capable of making good decisions, but just never had to because there was always a PM to babysit them.
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People who manage product managers should still spend almost all of their own time doing individual contributor work.Their words
There's like I think four or five people across the team who manage other PMs. All of them would spend 90 plus percent of their time doing IC work. I'm still probably 50% of my time doing IC work personally.
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there's definitely a group of PMs and I certainly used to be one of them earlier in my career whose specialty wasn't technical or customer-oriented, it was politics.
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rather than mapping PMs to teams where you kind of assume that the PM will always do that, we tend to map them to kind of problems or kind of like core projects.
26 May
24 May
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But the coding models have gotten good enough that he can pair the kind of the technical knowledge he does have with his really spiky product sense and sense for writing and sense for users.
13 May
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In a sense, we're all turning into project managers, right? And and we can have an army of junior programmers called agents that will just spit out reams of code, but someone's got to have the big picture and review all of that. And so, increasingly our craft is going from one of writing the code to one of of reviewing the code and and building the architecture of the code and overseeing the work, if if you will.
26 April
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in the early days, my view was not that we don't need PMs. My view was that designers should do that work.
7 January
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Companies should offer dual career tracks so product managers can advance without becoming people managers.Their words
Companies should embrace multitrack job ladders for product managers who prefer product leadership to people management.
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Getting To YesTheir words
Product managers need to be master negotiators and there’s no better guide to negotiation than this classic.
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How to Lie with StatisticsTheir words
Product managers need a solid foundation in statistics to be metrics-driven. This classic book is a lively and fun book will leave you smarter and more skeptical.
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Strong Product People: A Complete Guide to Developing Great Product ManagersTheir words
Whether you’re a product leader coaching a team member or still early in your product maangement career, Petra Wille will help you break down the essentials of the job and develop a plan for growth.
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On WritingTheir words
Product managers need to be good writers, and this is how you learn from one of the masters of the craft.
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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our LivesTheir words
Levy was given unprecedented access to Google, and the result is what I consider to be an accurate depiction of how the company operates. A good overview of how Google product managers work.
10 December 2025
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With so many professional money managers afraid to act, with most of the public in the grip of fear and anger, you should put your cash and your courage to work.
20 October 2025
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The fractures fell neatly along disciplines: engineers using AI to wish away designers, designers wishing away engineers, product managers wishing away both. In this climate, AI becomes frenemy identification technology, another way to avoid working together.
16 October 2025
From one piece Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Field 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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we're looking for high judgment individuals, people that are going to roll up their sleeves and do a lot, whether they're IC's or managers, and people that are going to get the details and perfect their craft, because we know that's how we're going to win is by having the best craft, the best design.
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PMs are no longer saying to the designer, hey, can you draw this thing out for me? That frees up designer time to go explore more deeply the stuff they need to go into and it allows anyone to kind of add to that first conversation of where should we go and look further and wider and broader at the option space.
21 September 2025
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we often also have this mental model of like oh our managers are a judge and they're going to judge me on whether or not I got it I did well I should get a promotion I should be fired so there's this sometimes fear that people have but I think in the very best relationships the manager is like a guide
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21 May 2025
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We live in the era of the symbolic executive, when "being good at stuff" matters far less than the appearance of doing stuff, where "what's useful" is dictated not by outputs or metrics that one can measure but rather the vibes passed between managers and executives that have worked their entire careers to escape the world of work.
1 April 2025
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The stereotype is that new managers often micromanage, but at Wave, I've noticed that new managers often err on the side of undermanaging, or being too hands-off, perhaps out of a desire to signal that they trust their reports.
16 March 2025
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The best project managers are usually not the strongest technical individual contributors.Their words
The best project-managers are often not the strongest technical ICs.
7 March 2025
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Vibe coding can execute instructions, but deciding what the software should do and why is not automated. Product managers and designers must still do user research, market analysis, and creative brainstorming. In that sense, vibe coding changes the implementation phase more than the planning phase of the product lifecycle.
16 December 2024
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Radical CandorTheir words
The definite book about giving good and candid feedback - and a very useful read for new(ish) managers. The book is a list of ideas around the theme of caring personally and challenging directly.
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First, Break all the RulesTheir words
Gallup interviewed thousands of high-performing teams and managers and found a dozen of things each of these teams had in common. While the insights are good, the content itself was quite dry for my taste.
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The Manager’s PathTheir words
A concise guide for managers, from tech lead, through line managers, managers of managers, all the way to CTO. Very much recommended: I have gone back to re-read parts of it several times.
1 September 2024
From one piece Founder Mode 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I also have another less optimistic prediction: as soon as the concept of founder mode becomes established, people will start misusing it. Founders who are unable to delegate even things they should will use founder mode as the excuse. Or managers who aren't founders will decide they should try to act like founders.
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There are things founders can do that managers can't, and not doing them feels wrong to founders, because it is.
2 August 2024
20 February 2024
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And what activism has done, and I think we've helped lead this movement, is it restored the balance of power between the owners of the business and the management of the company. And that's been a very good thing for the performance of the US stock market actually.
16 January 2024
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The Pragmatic EngineerTheir words
Gergely brings an incredible amount of reporting depth to every edition of this newsletter about the nuts and bolts of building technology. A must-read for the tech rank-and-file and their managers.
5 January 2024
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A few larger teams under experienced engineering managers outperform many tiny teams each led by a working tech lead.Their words
But everything I have ever experienced leads me to believe that a fewer number of larger teams, each helmed by an experienced engineering manager, should way outperform this gaggle of tiny groups.
30 August 2023
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AmethystTheir words
Amethyst, I wasn't into window managers until I used this one.
9 October 2021
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New managers, make sure that you aren’t trying to be a senior engineer who has direct reports.
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