Oct 237 Lessons from my 7th year of product managementThe transition from summer to fall has been a little rougher than usual this year, and so I found myself reluctant to really dig into this blog post. …Product Management8 min readProduct Management8 min read
Dec 31, 20229 Life Lessons from 2022“What did you learn this year?” I’ve found myself asking this question this week as I met up with friends and mentees. As is my practice now (eight years counts as a practice, right?), I reserve some time to sit with and sift through the past year. …Reflections6 min readReflections6 min read
Dec 19, 2022Weekly reflections of a product manager (2022 edition)This calendar year, I started a new work practice: journaling at the end of every week. In the one-page handwritten summary of the week, I created three categories: what happened, how I felt about it, and messages to myself. …Career Growth6 min readCareer Growth6 min read
Sep 5, 20229 lessons from my 6th year of product managementI didn’t hit my stride as a black belt until sometime around third degree. As is the case in traditional martial arts systems, I’d trained for two years for my second dan and three years for my third dan, and had spent a fair amount of those intervening years teaching…Product Management9 min readProduct Management9 min read
Jun 24, 2022The space between sabbaticals: 9 lessons from the past four yearsI don’t know quite when I became this person, but I’ve come to recognize that reflection is one of the ways that I learn from life. There’s something about the process of rumination — a long, slow affair of picking apart the things that have surfaced in my life over…Career Development9 min readCareer Development9 min read
Apr 4, 2022An overachiever’s guide to restUnbeknownst to many of my coworkers and many of my friends at the time, I went through a very intense period of burnout during a time of great professional success and growth. The source of burnout wasn’t actually work, but stemmed from something deep within my personal life. …Overachievers18 min readOverachievers18 min read
Feb 2, 20228 small adjustments that have created a sustainable home environmentConfession time: I’ve never been a terribly disciplined person. Oh sure, I can juggle multiple projects, write novels, and just Get Stuff Done, but when it comes down to it, things around the house just kind of pile up. The sudden shift to working from home a couple of years…Lifehacks5 min readLifehacks5 min read
Jan 5, 20228 Life Lessons from 2021I blew into the end of the year emotionally exhausted. Whether it was work (good, but busy), home (same), or world (mixed bag), I wandered into the arbitrary inflection point of the New Year feeling like I couldn’t actually look forward to 2022 until I’d spent some time thinking about…Life Lessons6 min readLife Lessons6 min read
Aug 30, 20219 lessons from my 5th year of product managementI wasn’t quite sure the purpose of writing about my journey in product management when I first started with my six-month reflection. As I write my sixth post at the five-year mark, I realize that I had unintentionally started a series of time capsules that served as a journey that…Product Management7 min readProduct Management7 min read
Feb 28, 20219 Life Lessons from a Year of Shelter in PlaceI sat on my living room floor, my computer in front of me and a small dish of dried cranberries next to me. …Life Lessons6 min readLife Lessons6 min read
