As a Product Manager, if you want to innovate, stay away from the Eye of Sauron. In my experience, some of the best work I’ve done in software businesses didn’t start out as the CEO’s top priorities. In fact, the
Stay Away from the Eye of Sauron
Platform Investments Allow You to Innovate
Product Management roles are sometimes broken down into 4 specializations: Core, Platform, Growth, and Innovation (this great post from Reforge dives deeper into each area). For most of my career, I’ve served as an innovation PM / zero-to-one PM, helping
Infrastructure Yields Innovation
When American President Joe Biden recently released his ambitious $2 trillion infrastructure and jobs plan, it sparked a debate online about what truly counts as infrastructure. We all generally understand that roads, bridges, power, and water systems count as “real