Tips for a trip to Utah & Arizona (USA) — THINGS TO DO BEFORE THE TRIP Rent a Car Make your car rental reservation online, it will make it much easier to pick up your car after you land and you will have more cars to choose from! If you have an iPhone, choose a car with Apple CarPlay, so that you can easily see your turn-by-turn directions while…

Tips for a trip to Nashville, Tennessee (USA) — THINGS TO DO BEFORE THE TRIP Not much to do except booking flights and a place to stay. You can also book tours in advance, but it’s not a must. If you want tickets for music + food: Bluebird Cafe is the really famous one and you have to queue on their website 8am Nashville time…

What is Just Travel Guides and what can you expect? — I’ve been writing travel guides for a few years now via Google Docs and I always started them with the line “I’m not an expert but…” and even here on Medium, the same holds true. I’m not a travel expert. I don’t even purport that my travel guides are the…

🧭 How ranking these criteria will help you navigate your next move and enable you to achieve your career goals. — Let’s face it, the era of “lifers” is over. In fact, it’s both accepted and expected that an individual will jump from one job to another multiples times in their career. So with that in mind, it’s important to consider the underlying “why” of these moves — specifically, why are…

🎯 My recipe for success and some content tips — If you’re a product manager or aspiring to become one, you’re likely familiar with take-home assignments, which are a common part of today’s application process. Take-home assignments are used to weed out applicants— they help demonstrate how you think, how you communicate, and how you work. I’m not here to…

Plus a list of tips and a decision tree to decide which one is right for you — Product management is a hot career for many reasons, so it goes without saying that countless professionals and new grads today are looking to break into it — maybe you are one of them. After years in product management myself and many coffee conversations with product leaders and aspiring product…

The importance of denominators for meaningful data — Let’s jump right into the meat and potatoes — I’ll walk you through a scenario to illustrate one of many reasons why your product metrics should include ratios. You are a product manager at Bubbls, a fictional house cleaning service with a subscription model that gives customers 1 or 4…

You’ll never guess what’s in mine… — In Jack of All Trades, Master of One, I discussed the importance of being T-shaped — that is, an individual who has breadth of knowledge in a variety of disciplines, but depth in one. …

It’s okay to be a generalist. In fact, as a Product Manager, relish in it. — I’ve always considered myself a jack of all trades — a tech-savvy lover of the arts with an entrepreneurial spirit — but for almost just as long, I’ve also considered it a weakness. After all, the phrase goes: Jack of all trades and master of none. After conversations with my…