[PM Career Gyaan Master Post] How to think about your career
This will be the place where I link to all the career gyaan I have given or accumulated over the years
My own Gyaan
- Should you go to College?
- How to think about a job switch
- How to negotiate during a job hunt
- High Leverage Activities
- Yo Manas, Why don’t you startup man?
- What should I do in life?
- 20 lessons from 10 months at Go-Jek
- How to make big decisions
- PM ko aata kya hain
- Be a purple cow
- 80/20
- How to think about a job offer
- 10 Steps for Landing a Job at a Startup
- How I became a Product Manager
- Career development plan for PMs
- Produce > Process > Impress
- Maximizers vs Optimizers
- PM as energy curator
- YES and NO
- How -> What -> Why
- Interview Defaults
- PM Interview Questions
- Think about the other 90% of the job
- 2/3
- Dear beginner PM, Say YES
- Calendar audit
- Good Report vs Bad Report
- Performance evaluation
- Resume
- Performance reviews
- Job of a PM
- First 90 days
- Playing the PM vs being one
- How to ask for a referral
- PM’ing at a big company
- Exit and entry
- Managing other PMs
- Stay in a company that is winning
- One level up
- Join for the present
- Timezone empathy
- Discussing politics at work
- First impressions matter
- Proof of work
- MBA or not
- IC vs Manager
- Titles and career lottery
- Why I like PM’ing
- Honest career advice for PMs
- Are colleges dead?
- How to do a cold outreach right
- Senior is a vibe
- Are you an NPC?
- Do your homework
- The stories we tell
- Sell your work
- Twice a year career review
- Why join a late stage startup?
- Learn to do high leverage activities well
- The price we pay
- Engineering vs Product vs Design
- Shoot your shot
- Your reputation as a manager matters
- Resources on negotiating your job offer
- Resources on employee equity
- Rangoli jokes
- On Vik
- Thoughts on angel investing
- Internships
- The tragedy of midwits
- Career growth and luck
- MVPs to zero in on a career path
- Hacking your career to retire early
- Your need, their calendar
- Presenting to execs
- Stop reading product blogs
- A few unpopular opinions
- Secure the bag for yourself
- These are the good times
- Why angel investing is dumb
Favourite books on Career
- Catalyst: The ultimate strategies on how to win at work and in life - Chandramouli Venkatesan
- Deepwork - Cal Newport
- So good they can’t ignore you - Cal Newport
- The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age - Reid Hoffman
- Principles - Ray Dalio
- Managing Oneself - Peter Drucker
- The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
- The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World’s Most Successful People Launched Their Careers - Alex Banayan
- The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviours that Transform Ordinary People into World Class Leaders - Elena L. Botelho, Kim Powell, Tahl Raz
Career frameworks
Note: I will keep expanding this list