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Competitors obsession

  Healthy competition is a good thing. It drives innovation and brings benefits to customers. However, at times a product team might get obsessed with their competitors which leads them astray.
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In the build zone

  I have built products in many different industries: HRtech, marketing, last-mile.. But one industry, where I really wanted to work, always eluded me - that's Education tech. The stars were never rightly aligned for me to work in EduTech until I decided to build my own EduTech app.
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On user's product lifecycle

  Ok, what's now? On Saturday, I celebrated my 2000th day streak on Duolingo. How long is that? Almost five and a half years using this app every day! But that Saturday was the last day I used Duolingo.
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Competitive Research Survey

  Whether we like it or not, we all need to be competition-aware as PMs. Most of us have competitors, and understanding what they do might help us to win in the market.
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No excuse not being technical

  People come to product management from different fields, engineering being just one of them. This created a divide between technical and non-technical PMs. With the rise of AI coding tools, this divide is going away fast, as most PMs can now become technical PMs.
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Frameworks we no longer care about

  Is it only me, or have we stopped talking about frameworks? Long gone debates about Agile vs Waterfall, we stopped fighting over TDD vs BDD or KANO vs effort/value... it's KANO by the way, KANO is way superior.
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Live and let fail

  How's an old song by Paul McCartney and a famous quote by William Blake relevant to product management and business in general? Yeah, it's one of "those" posts.
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At least I am learning

  When the job market gets tough and you can't move to pastures green - prioritise learning.
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