It’s from 10 years back but still great definitions of three ‘meaningful roles’ in organizations from Dave Kellog blog I am talking about one of three levels at which people operate: manager, director, and vice president. Here are my definitions: Managers are paid to drive results with some support. They have experience in the function, can take responsibility, but are still...
Patterns beats templates
by Tim Herbig
Strategy notes: Competitive strategy – Defense
Defense strategies Position defenseprotect the shire – or defend and reinforce your most established product.like Coca Cola spending on brandFlank defensedefend vulnerable areas a.k.a flanksiPhone SE for price sensitive segments, Uni- -lever bottom of pyramid in IndiaPre-emptive defenseDisrupt competitors before they act with pricing strategies, loyalty programs, aggressive marketing, or...
TIL – OPEN BANKING
Good primer on open banking by Blanca labs – PDF Open Banking is transforming financial services by enabling secure data sharing between banks and authorized third-party providers (TPPs) through APIs. Key Themes: • From Screen Scraping to Open Banking: Screen scraping is insecure. Open Banking addresses this with standardized APIs and enhanced security, ensuring transparent and secure data...
Product strategy memo
1. Executive Summary TL;DR 2. Market and the Customer Target Customers: Who are your target customers? Include demographic and psychographic profiles. Customer Segmentation: Overview of the key customer segments, their needs, behaviors, and pain points. Value Proposition: What is the value proposition? Describe how your product or service uniquely meets the needs of your target customers...
Building recommendation systems
2 tower models
I’ve been leveraging 2 Tower models with good enough results these past few years, but often fail to explain the building blocks of the model in a simple way. These posts do that –
Embeddings etc. 2 Tower models explained – link
Personalized recommendation systems – link
Surely you’re joking
Then I had another thought: Physics disgusts me a little bit now, but I used to enjoy doing physics. Why did I enjoy it? I used to play with it. I used to do whatever I felt like doing – it didn’t have to do with whether it was important for the development of nuclear physics, but whether it was interesting and amusing for me to play with. When I was in high school, I’d see...
On PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY
Custom gpts FOR PM
Two custom GPTs for product sense and product execution interview prep.
Product sense GPT
Product Execution GPT
Created by Marily Nika
reading list
𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆: 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 The Making of a Manager: Complete guide for new managers covering all the essential skills. Radical Candor: Focused specifically on the tough skill of providing candid feedback and guidance. 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆: 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 Playing to Win: Engaging primer on business strategy packed with case studies. Good Strategy Bad Strategy: Goes beyond surface-level strategy tips to examine the...