Tweets on how to make great products, gathered by @kaz. (also take a look at who this account is Following if you want more PM goodness)
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✨Big new launch: the Product Almanac
All of my public writing over the past 4 years. In one place.
Available for free. Just request access to this @coda_hq powered doc:
productalmanac.com/
Even more content to added there soon, but this should keep you busy for a while🗒️
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The Lenny Bot based on @lennysan's content is absolutely incredible
lennybot.com/?utm_source=sub…
The job of “Product Manager” is nominally impossible, and perhaps so are its deliverables. Being a “Great PM” might involve being more than one person.
New article: My takedown of the cult of "Great Product Manager," and how to build an actually-great Product organization:
longform.asmartbear.com/post…
Enjoy, and thanks in advance for sharing!
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People don't want a quarter inch drill, they want a quarter inch hole.
People don't want a quarter inch hole, they want a way to hang a photo.
People don't want to hang a photo, they want to feel the presence of loved ones.
I don't think there's a finish line for insights.
Assumptions are the cancer of product management. It's really hard to avoid them because our brains are hard-wired to do so. Question everything and get hold of the data when you can. reddit.com/r/ProductManageme…
.@RickRubin would make a killer PM.
"I don't produce. I reduce."
instagram.com/p/CN9B9vFLJfn/…
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The reason we told this story often (thank you @aaron_!) was to remember a fundamental product truth:
It is not about how many features you add or how much work the team did.
What matters is: did we understand the users' needs well enough to give them what they wanted most?
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When people hesitate to give honest feedback on an idea, draft, or performance, I ask for a 0-10 score.
No one ever says 10. Then I ask how I can get closer to a 10.
It motivates them to start coaching me—and motivates me to be coachable. I want to learn how to close the gap.
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📱 Over the past 2-3 years, I screenshotted a ton of random tweets about social/product that made me think
Here they are, in chronological order, w highlights from @nikitabier, @BrianNorgard, @rsg, @Mazzeo, @prestonattebery, + many more
(sry for weird twtr cropping + threading)
literally have a folder of dozens of my fav screenshotted tweets on consumer social product stuff...and @nikitabier is well represented
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Excited to see @gayle and @jackiebo launch their new book, Cracking the PM Career! Includes an interview with me and my framework for 3 types of product managers: builders, tuners, and innovators. Encourage you to check it out! amazon.com/gp/product/098478…
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People ask me all the time, what are the most valuable things I learned working at Facebook. I worked there for three years as a PM → Director of Product. (1/x)
Here they are 👇
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often the quality of a product is determined in the last 10% of effort.
where you think something is almost done, then notice things aren't perfect, and still do the work.
common example:
xitter.cf/joshelman/status/13160…
"When someone tells you something is wrong, they’re almost always right. When someone tells you how to fix it, they’re almost always wrong."
via: forge.medium.com/33-things-i…
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Don't build features your customers ask for*
Ask them:
What they're trying to do
Why they are unable to do it
Why it's painful
And quantify their desire for the pain to go away
Then go build the best solution to that pain that enhances the entire product
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A thread on insightful ideas on consumer products by Brian Norgard (@BrianNorgard):
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The single best growth hack in existence is a quality product that only works when used with other people.
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Still think of this principle all the time, but now I realize that if there is one thing that can win over convenience, it is habit. You can think of it as a form of convenience — that of not having to think.
One of my top product principles: convenience always wins. It wins over price, features, even quality. You could say people are slightly irrational in their weighing of convenience. uploadvr.com/mark-zuckerberg…
