Yassin Aboelnour

Delivering no-BS takes and actionable tips about Product Management | First principles thinker

[Yassin Aboelnour @YassinAEN]

Interested in Product, Startups, and First Principles Thinking?

Over the next 30ish days, I'll be writing 30 Atomic Essays.

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P.S. Wow, making public commitments is a scary thing.

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These 3 Mantras of Customer Discovery Are The Difference Between Actual Discovery & Discovery Theater

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This post was inspired by 2 programs I've recently been part of. Different offerings and audiences, both narrative-centric:

• @dickiebush & @Nicolascole77 's Ship30for30
• @shobhitchugh 's Intentional Product Manager

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The Narrative Paradox: 3 Ways Being a PM Conditions You To Suck At Telling Your Story - But Rock At Telling Others'

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3 Hot Takes About Being A Startup PM That No One Is Telling You

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Use The STRIDER Framework To Come Out of Crises Even Stronger

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Do You Have Enough Self-Awareness As A PM? 3 Things To Check For So You Can Stop Wondering For Good

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We Survived Techpocalypse '23: 3 Things Our Scars Should Teach Us

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Hindsight is 20/20. Realizing that a Startup PM role isn't a fit/has issues is never pleasant. But you have to know the signs.

If you see something, do something.

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If you're a startup, odds are someone is out there selling features you don't have yet. And your devs are sitting on a mountain of tech debt. How do you communicate and think about balancing all of that?

Presenting the Elastic Band Model

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PMs live and breathe frameworks and mental models.

Why? Is it really that we can't think without them? Do we need a structured overlay to every problem?

We might not. But it's not about us. Read on.

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ICYMI: Yann LeCunn & Elon Musk are beefing as of last week. While everyone loves a diss track, here's why this debate is actually worth paying attention to.