The art of product management | Shreyas Doshi (Stripe, Twitter, Google, Yahoo)

Taste is about the ability to identify what is really good, without needing to see its results. Game recognize game before the game is called, right? Like, game recognize game in the practice session.

If you have a real product strategy, a real one that everybody is aligned with, that you have got pre-alignment on, then a lot of this nonsense we tend to do with annual planning actually goes away.

If you identify your superpowers and work in accordance with them, you will do the best work of your life. You will love it, and you will be great at it, and you won't have that frustration.

Product work happens at three levels. There's the impact level, there's the execution level, and there's the optics level. My happy place is the impact level.

Our jobs get frustrating when we behave, most of the time, in misalignment with our superpowers and who we truly are at our core.

At some point, if you haven't already gotten there, many of you have, but for those of you who haven't, you will get there, where your scope will be so large, that no matter what you do in terms of efficiency, whatever framework you use for prioritization, whatever framework or tool you use to manage your to-do list, whatever tools and techniques you use, whatever prioritization you do, your scope is so large that you are still going to be incredibly busy.

Thinking is cheap, so you should do more thinking, not less.