@shreyas · Shreyas Doshi on X♥ 229
Most mid-career product people who are doing reasonably well make 2 implicit assumptions that affect their quality of life: 1. the ceiling of key product skills is just an inch higher than where they are now (i.e. they’re basically already at the ceiling) 2. the point of any upskilling is to get a…
@shreyas · Shreyas Doshi on X♥ 210
Something that’s changed rapidly in the past year: Product Managers who’ve historically viewed their role as “my main job is to execute” are finding it way harder to get hired at top companies than those who’ve viewed their role as “my main job is to make the product successful”
@shreyas · Shreyas Doshi on X♥ 141
This is also true in tech careers. A lot of people I speak with are successful by every conventional metric, but they find it difficult to decide what to do next, in their career and their life.
@shreyas · Shreyas Doshi on X♥ 50
If it is useful to know, this private playlist provides deep, super-candid answers for the following 23 questions, with 1 video for each question: What signals do you look for that indicate a PM is ready to be promoted to the Director level? How do you get better at storytelling? How do you decide…
@shreyas · Shreyas Doshi on X♥ 55
From coaching 100s of people over the years on career decisions, LinkedIn Envy and the Impact Lie are the root cause of many career regrets of otherwise-smart people. How to avoid such regrets? As with many such situations, the knowledge is the cure:
@lennysan · Lenny Rachitsky on X♥ 59
.@thsottiaux (Head of ChatGPT & Codex) on the skills trending up and down in the AI era. Trending up: great taste, passion to build something that matters, knowing what good looks like. Trending down: typing fast.
@shreyas · Shreyas Doshi on X♥ 241
ON TOUGH TIMES AT WORK People are different, and different people need different things to get them through tough times at work — times when work is stressful, or you’re dealing with annoying politics, or just when the motivation tank is running low. For some, it’s energizing
@shreyas · Shreyas Doshi on X♥ 204
This happens to smart people because of: 1. Deep-rooted identity of “I am good at product” (vs. “I am good at winning” or something like that) 2. Moral aversion against marketing & distribution 3. A habit of seeking virtue points by proclaiming “I just want to serve my users”
@lennysan · Lenny Rachitsky on X♥ 59
“If we truly believe that AI is changing how we work, then ICs should get paid more than managers, because an IC can drive more impact than a manager could in the pre-AI system.” — @ElenaVerna
@joulee · Julie Zhuo on X♥ 57
This question... I have spent far too many hours contemplating it. I have discovered multiple answers depending on how deep you want to go. The most pragmatic answer: you want to win a marathon, not a sprint. Too much sprinting makes you worse at marathons. The hard part, of course, is knowing how…
@shreyas · Shreyas Doshi on X♥ 7
Of course, enabling product success has always been the main job of a PM. Execution, while essential (by definition), was never the main job of a PM. Proof: This is a tweet I had sent in the pre-generative AI era: