Success requires both doing and storytelling

I had one learning there that has stuck with me, and I think can work for other people too, is that it's not just about doing things that actually matter, and learning. It's about being able to tell the story, and it's about understanding what other people perceive as valuable.

The biggest thing I see particularly at higher levels is people talk about what they have done but not why it mattered. They don't talk about the impact.

We're always looking to see where people moved the needle, especially on the product side, where their fingerprints were, what they can actually point to that they did and are proud of during their time there.

The way different story than I prioritized backlog and I shipped it off to developers. Take it a step further - who are your customers? Did you go out and talk to them?

Ensure that the story you will tell about the work you're doing today is meaningful for your skip job. So if you sit down and you write down, 'In six months, in 12 months, in 24 months, when I achieve or finish this role, here's the paragraph I'll write. Here's a problem I solved. Here's the skill I built. Here's the headwind I faced. Here's what I did to overcome it.' Use I in the sentence, do not use we.