PM Diary
@pmdiary100
PM-ing work and life | Embracing and reflecting on failure | Teardown all Hi-tech and Lo-tech products as a habit
Com'on, why do you want to visit again at all if you have given one-star before? Life is too short
OpenTable get blocked from reservations if you leave bad reviews
📚 Do You Have to Finish Every Book You Start? Some people can’t stand leaving a book unfinished. Me? I have zero guilt about dropping books that no longer interest me. Full story here 👉 partnerpm.substack.com/p/my-possibly-… ❓How do you read?
We often think we're independent, but we're usually in a three-legged race. (Good) PMs excels at coordinating multiple stakeholders. In personal life, partners & parents are race teammates. That’s why I write partnerpm.substack.com #productmanager
Life is about making trade-off. Sometimes doing one thing perfectly well is better than stretching yourself to deliver 5 tasks with average quality open.substack.com/pub/partnerpm/…?
It’s ok to be imperfect. So this is also not a typical LI/Notes/X post that try to get you to click or leave a comment so it would go viral. I just want to let you know every one failed at something at some point. I start to embrace that in my newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/partnerpm/…
Eng: Technically it's out of battery, not dead Data science: This bar looks incorrect. Not matching the battery level <1% PMs: User only want to know when it will be ready to use. Show that instead
Internet was down. Technician came. In 2 min he asked for access to a "comms room". No clue and left. Rebook, another technician came. Told him the story. He asked "Is he a contractor" ? How do I know? "That's how that work." In 30 min my internet was back, no comms room needed.
What I often see is mature company trying to get a zero-to-one PM, as leadership was unhappy with the latest progress, missing the good old days of being a hacky startup, imagining they will make the team more "start-up-ty" again by hiring that few people. WRONG.
A framework to understand the three most common types of product managers (via @rohinip): 1. Pioneers: These PMs excel in zero-to-one, and thrive in environments where they need to build products from the ground up, with little to no existing infrastructure. They are good at…
Officially proven: We all love fake news
Lying about numbers to make people feel better is so commonplace in America . Good luck to anyone else with a normal BMI trying to buy jeans. Inches don’t mean inches anymore and maybe that’s because nothing means anything anymore . Might as well butcher math . @LEVIS you’re next…
Who's already struggling with your 2025 goals after 2 wks into the year? 🙋🏻♀️ Maybe you didn't pick the goal that fits you. Check this out : open.substack.com/pub/partnerpm/…
Always glad when @business pubs a big takeout on #HongKong. Astonishing to read words of longtime expats who only now seem to understand why locals risked their lives and futures to protest in 2019. Where in hell were they? bloomberg.com/news/features/…
bloomberg.com
Bankers Are Abandoning Hong Kong as Beijing and Covid Remake the City
More and more of the white-collar professionals who help shape Hong Kong believe its best days are over.
BREAKING NEWS: Future designs of iPhones LEAKED!!!
The app is doing it’s job; the high number of cases is because the government aren’t.
Record 618,903 alerts were sent to NHS Covid app users in England and Wales last week bbc.in/3rpThln
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