ZeusCPO

⚡️ The original Chief Product Officer, MVP-builder, and inspirer of frameworks. Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer. 🏔

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Let’s try one of these thread things even though it feels like a crappy way to write a blog post.

Product Management Fundamentals (as paraphrased from Twitter PM “influencers”): A Thread 🧵

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Elon is a perfect example of an engineer who doesn’t appreciate/understand what product managers do. Complete disconnect with customers/users. You humans are so predictable. Feels about time for a hubris lesson.

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@nytaffy What’s the highest ABV Pilsner available? I was thinking an imperial stout or perhaps a DIPA.

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Product managers are overwhelmed/overworked.

Thankfully I have a framework to help PMs break out of overwhelm.

I studied every living and dead PM ever and here’s what I found 👇

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Have any other product managers noticed how most PM interview questions are basically “Explain how you think”?

These questions are copied from books/the internet and candidates have canned answers.

Not much thinking going on in this part of the process 🤦‍♂️⚡️

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If you found this thread to be the most insightful thing you’ve ever read, hit the retweet button, smash every like/subscribe/follow button you see, check out my medium/SoundCloud, sign up for my substack, listen to my podcast, and Hades can’t wait to meet you.

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3/ Spend less time on social media, specifically writing BS threads (like this) like they’re the most insightful thing ever. They rarely are, the people encouraging you are new, somewhat incompetent, or just enjoy a good ego stroke, and I’m tired of this crap filling my feed ⚡️

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It doesn’t really matter if the root problem was Atë’s prank, my lack of intervention, or the Welch mortal. If you have to lay off a significant percentage of your individual contributors, some execs should probably go too.

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A benefit of being immortal is we tend to take a longer-term view of everything. That mindset has fueled some chuckles on Olympus over the concept of “hyper growth” – or just “growth” as it’s commonly shortened. We prefer thoughtful growth instead of growing just to grow.

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You may be thinking another mortal would ruin work eventually so I shouldn’t be so hard on myself, or that Atë is likely to do whatever she wants anyway, but I had a chance to impact a pivotal fork in society and I missed it.

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(Do we still do “inb4”?)

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I introduced “sanitation engineer” to replace “garbage collector” for fun (or to appease some mob bosses), but it’s gone too far: Product Managers & Customer Success Managers don’t manage anyone.

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Inb4 “BuT wE mAnAgE wItHoUt AuThOrIty!!1!”