The happiness and pain of product management

Work on the things that make you happy, that fill you up. Life is short. We're all very lucky to be in this moment. There's no reason to spend time on things that don't give you energy.

No one can be a bystander on product strategy. Just because you've got product in your title doesn't mean you're the only one that should be thinking about product strategy.

Growth masks all problems. You don't really have a true understanding of what is working well and what is not working well when you have incredible growth.

I always try to prioritize putting myself in positions that are going to cause a lot of growth and learning. And growth and learning can be very painful.

Salar is YouTube's CEO Salar Kamangar, and Hunter is another YouTube executive who Noam suggested should become his manager.

I went to Salar and said, 'Hey, I think I should actually report to Hunter. I think this would work better if we kind of combined the organizations this way.'