This has been frequently requested of me ever since my earlier post about ‘The Six Month Conversation’ resonated with so many people. This follow up is about the framework Alexis and I devised with hopes of guiding our life journey together independently and as a couple. I know this post is arriving several years late, after tons of requests, so thanks everybody for your patience!
Note for any readers: this is written to myself for future reference.
While going through the exercise of year-end cleaning, the process includes checking bookmarks for what will be highly relevant going forward. These are a few I’ve kept throughout 2018, which are now lower priority but which I may like to reference again in the future.
Frameworks and Tools:
This is the fifth instalment (of 5) to share from my massive backlog of bookmarked Quora answers to share with my community. For the number of posts to share, I’ve picked a number that’s significant to me: 111
As always, I hope you enjoy, learn something, and it helps you one day. Much love <3
https://qr.ae/TUtyWf - What is a summary of major events in world history?
https://qr.ae/TUty9X - How do I consume food at a buffet in the most efficient way? I want to maximize my food eating potential.
https://qr.ae/TUty9R - What is the most difficult thing to learn and accept about life?
https://qr.ae/TUty9p - Should I quit my job and follow my passion, or stick to my job and improve my performance…
This is the fourth instalment (of 5) to share from my massive backlog of bookmarked Quora answers to share with my community.
As always: I hope you enjoy, learn something, and it helps you one day. Much love <3
https://qr.ae/TUtyON - What are some uncommon ways to work smarter instead of harder?
https://qr.ae/TUtyOn - What is the reason, everyone I know, especially men, complain about their married life? Is it really that bad?
https://qr.ae/TUtyOA - What are some of the biggest scams/cons in modern history?
https://qr.ae/TUtyOK - What is the strangest way you found out your significant other was cheating on you?
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This is the third instalment (of 5) to share from my massive backlog of bookmarked Quora answers to share with my community.
Hmm… I’m now finding out that this bank of bookmarked Quora answers is insane, so I’ll be ramping up the count from 25 per post to 50 per post. Wowza, that would mean 200 Quora answers shared in this December 2018 series!!!
As always: I hope you enjoy, learn something, and it helps you one day. Much love <3
https://qr.ae/TUtyw5 - How good are bad software engineers?
https://qr.ae/TUtywk - What are the biggest myths about owning a business?
https://qr.ae/TUtywH - Mike Rowe, of Dirty Jobs fame, claims that thousands of jobs are available in the US but nobody will take them. In our capitalistic country, doesn't this demonstrate that the rate of pay needs to be increased for these same jobs?
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This is the second instalment (of 5) to share from my massive backlog of bookmarked Quora answers to share with my community.
I hope you enjoy, learn something, and it helps you one day. Much love <3
https://qr.ae/TUtyoa - What is the most lucrative business move that you’ve ever made?
https://qr.ae/TUtyoe - Why does Tarkin's CGI in Rogue One look so plastic-y? Could they have made it look more realistic?
https://qr.ae/TUtyoc - What are some useful technology life hacks?
https://qr.ae/TUtyoJ - Why are pineapples called pineapples? In most languages, pineapples are called “ananas”, or something similar.
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This is the first instalment (of 5) to share from my massive backlog of bookmarked Quora answers to share with my community.
I hope you enjoy, learn something, and it helps you one day. Much love <3
https://qr.ae/TUtrxv - What are some undeniable facts about life?
https://qr.ae/TUtrxy - Why are there television ads for milk? Is there anyone who hasn't heard of milk?
https://qr.ae/TUtrxY - I irrationally see being a Google engineer as the "dream job". How can I convince myself there's nothing special about it?
https://qr.ae/TUtrxC - Do you use a different name at Starbucks? If so, why, and what is the name?
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What is it? Do I need it? Where does it fit in the org? I've also heard of Sales Enablement; is it different? How do I do it right? What career paths get you to Sales Ops and where can you go from there? Is Sales Ops leadership the same as Sales leadership? So many questions. So few good answers.
Product development/management is tough as hell. Thankfully there is an amazing community of practitioners. The book, Product Leadership (website, Amazon), has so many nuggets of wisdom encoded in it. Check it out :)
Here are some quotes I found noteworthy and strive to commit to my DNA:
Great product people will ask questions about the product, the market, and the business. Not only this, they show an interest in all aspects of the team they work with, from unified vision to individual communication styles. Understand that producing great products can be difficult and frustrating, but still want to do the work.
Ultimately, the job of the product manager is to get results through other people.
What is common in high-performance teams is that…
For as far back as I can remember, my father has served as my primary role model, showing by example the importance of impeccable integrity, hard work and dedication, creative business thinking and the need for maintaining a long-term perspective. Today, in his mid-80’s, he is as energetic and engaged in the entrepreneurial life as anyone I know, creating new business and social ventures, and mentoring yet another generation of entrepreneurs.
While my siblings and I have had the privilege of growing up under his direct tutelage, many other people have had the benefit of his distilled life experience, because one thing he is not shy about is sharing advice....
This weekend, I attended Product Camp Vancouver 2018 alongside hundreds of Vancouver's tech community. I walked away from the event feeling inspired and connected. What a great event and wonderful community!
I attended the event without a clear understanding of what is typically in or out of scope for the Product Management (PM) line of work. My perspective is mostly heavily informed by my firsthand experiences on the delivery and growth sides for high-tech and professional services companies. I learned a bunch that helped connect some missing dots of concepts in my mind - very thankful for this.
Below are some of my takeaways, whether new or old ideas, which I am mulling over. These points are mostly from talks by Chloe Morrow (of Vision Critical), Cory Ayres (of Pendo), and Steven Forth (of Ibbaka), as well as with fellow participants...
