Blog

Below are a few blog posts I’ve written over the years.

Jun 25, 2020
Calendar Audit
Jun 24, 2020
Good Report vs Bad Report
Jun 23, 2020
[Career Growth] Performance evaluation
Jun 22, 2020
Digital minimalism
Jun 21, 2020
Don Valentine's investment framework
Jun 20, 2020
Action vs Intention
Jun 19, 2020
Overlap
Jun 18, 2020
PM Interview Questions 2
Jun 17, 2020
Thank you for not being sarcastic
Jun 16, 2020
Be the go to person for something
Jun 15, 2020
Think about the other 90% of the job
Jun 14, 2020
2/3
Jun 13, 2020
Dear beginner PM, Say YES
Jun 12, 2020
CashBoss
Jun 11, 2020
You don't need to impress everyone
Jun 10, 2020
Words matter
Jun 9, 2020
Dear PM, the product spec is for you
Jun 8, 2020
A list of priorities
Jun 7, 2020
Simple goal setting
Jun 6, 2020
Swiggy Super: Subscription programs and switching cost
Jun 5, 2020
[Meetings Master Post] All the gyaan on meetings
Jun 4, 2020
[JTBD] All the resources I have on Jobs-to-Be-Done
Jun 3, 2020
[Meetings] How to schedule one?
Jun 2, 2020
Why now? Why us?
Jun 1, 2020
[Communication] Diamond and Pyramid
May 31, 2020
[Stakeholder Management] Driving consensus
May 30, 2020
3 months of less Twitter
May 29, 2020
Day in the life of a big company
May 28, 2020
[Meetings] A list of all my meetings
May 27, 2020
Usage of Dropbox Paper is now mandatory
May 26, 2020
Left or Right
May 25, 2020
[Meetings] Running more efficient meetings
May 24, 2020
[Project Management] Best practices for cross-team collaboration
May 23, 2020
Company Principles, Values and Playbooks
May 22, 2020
Getting back your time
May 21, 2020
Leading other PMs
May 20, 2020
The 5 min pause
May 19, 2020
[Communication Master Post] How to write and communicate better
May 18, 2020
[Self Improvement Master Post] Life, Learning and Productivity
May 17, 2020
You and Your Research - Richard Hamming
May 16, 2020
No as a default
May 15, 2020
Streaks on Insight timer
May 14, 2020
Instacart turns profitable
May 13, 2020
Swiggy's new splash screen
May 12, 2020
Peter Thiel vs Jack Dorsey
May 11, 2020
[Career Growth] Career development plan for PMs
May 10, 2020
Vision, mission, values, OKRs, and the pyramid of clarity
May 9, 2020
Will Amazon win the food delivery war in India?
May 8, 2020
Snapchat and self-imposed constraints
May 7, 2020
How do we get people to start taking rides again?
May 6, 2020
Produce > Process > Impress
May 5, 2020
Religion and Truth seeking
May 4, 2020
Snapchat stories
May 3, 2020
Slack workflow
May 2, 2020
[Design] Creation Process and Reviews
May 1, 2020
[Stand-ups][IPM][Sprints] Running Stand-up, Sprints and Iteration Planning Meetings
Apr 30, 2020
Presidential briefings for key decisions
Apr 29, 2020
[Decision Making] On making good decisions
Apr 28, 2020
Improving my mental health
Apr 27, 2020
Stated vs real reasons
Apr 26, 2020
Project management best practices
Apr 25, 2020
Please don't force me to cc your manager
Apr 24, 2020
Building in the times of Covid-19
Apr 23, 2020
Stack
Apr 22, 2020
Pre-mortem & post-mortem
Apr 21, 2020
Push > Pull
Apr 20, 2020
Nostalgia as a service
Apr 19, 2020
Documentation as cache
Apr 18, 2020
Maximizers vs Optimizers
Apr 17, 2020
Cutting down my Twitter usage
Apr 16, 2020
Grammarly's weekly stats mail
Apr 15, 2020
Give your users a superpower
Apr 14, 2020
Thoughts after a month of WFH
Apr 13, 2020
Why you should unfollow me on Twitter
Apr 12, 2020
[PM Career Gyaan Master Post] How to think about your career
Apr 11, 2020
How to think about a job offer
Apr 10, 2020
[Masterclass] Bob Iger teaches Business Strategy and Leadership
Apr 9, 2020
Tipping on Dunzo
Apr 8, 2020
Why RedBus is Red
Apr 7, 2020
So you want to learn Poker?
Apr 6, 2020
Social Media filter
Apr 5, 2020
Why I might never apply for a job at Google
Apr 4, 2020
Statuses on Slack
Apr 3, 2020
Webinars are useless
Apr 2, 2020
Searching for my brother on Google Pay
Apr 1, 2020
Strong opinions, weakly held
Mar 31, 2020
80/20
Mar 30, 2020
Vision vs Winning
Mar 29, 2020
[Retrospectives] How to run a Retrospective
Mar 28, 2020
[Product Update Email] Emoji Reactions is LIVE
Mar 27, 2020
Predicting the future
Mar 26, 2020
What Anthony Bourdain taught me about PM'ing
Mar 25, 2020
How I find new things to read
Mar 24, 2020
Giving advice
Mar 23, 2020
[Project Apollo] How to run a product team
Mar 22, 2020
[MOM] How to write a MOM the right way
Mar 21, 2020
Coronavirus rant
Mar 20, 2020
Download button on Google Podcast
Mar 19, 2020
Carthago delenda est
Mar 18, 2020
Optimising your life
Mar 17, 2020
Don't push those untested changes on Production
Mar 16, 2020
Seize, Clear, Hold, Build
Mar 15, 2020
PM as energy curator
Mar 14, 2020
The mediocrity principle
Mar 13, 2020
Be a purple cow
Mar 12, 2020
The Coronavirus WFH Reading List - 100 of the best
Mar 11, 2020
Keeping low expectations
Mar 10, 2020
No-mind: Pomp’s interview of Brian Norgard
Mar 9, 2020
A day in my life
Mar 8, 2020
Why Twitter fleets might not work
Mar 7, 2020
On tools
Mar 6, 2020
Automated welcome message on Slack
Mar 5, 2020
[Project Lumos] Product Management Principles & Frameworks
Mar 4, 2020
Design Jam
Mar 3, 2020
Truth Seeking
Mar 2, 2020
Data driven
Mar 1, 2020
Empty chair
Feb 29, 2020
On truth speaking and virtue signalling
Feb 28, 2020
Understanding product decisions: Why did they do this?
Feb 27, 2020
What kind of PM do you want yourself to be known as?
Feb 26, 2020
2 types of requirements document
Feb 25, 2020
YES and NO
Feb 24, 2020
Transportation for kids
Feb 23, 2020
Doing things you don't like
Feb 22, 2020
Steer into the Objection style of presentation
Feb 21, 2020
Calling people Sanghis
Feb 20, 2020
Shitposting on Twitter
Feb 19, 2020
Google Tez
Feb 18, 2020
Levers Dials Pulleys
Feb 17, 2020
Keith Rabois - How to Operate
Feb 16, 2020
Contribution Margin and Predictable Distribution
Feb 15, 2020
On Whatsapp Pay
Feb 14, 2020
A few good podcasts
Feb 13, 2020
How I find books to read
Feb 12, 2020
Incumbents vs Innovators
Feb 11, 2020
How -> What -> Why
Feb 10, 2020
2 characteristics of great businesses
Feb 9, 2020
You should copy your competitors
Feb 8, 2020
List of books I am reading right now
Feb 7, 2020
Interview Defaults
Feb 6, 2020
Learning a new skill
Feb 5, 2020
Measuring communication
Feb 4, 2020
Swiggy vs Tinyowl vs FoodPanda
Feb 3, 2020
Blue Apron
Feb 2, 2020
Learning Football
Feb 1, 2020
PM Interview Questions
Jan 31, 2020
PM ko aata kya hain
Jan 30, 2020
How to create your own Life Math Money account
Jan 29, 2020
Capital as a Moat
Jan 28, 2020
[1:1] How to do a proper One on One
Jan 27, 2020
Why I will mostly say NO to your request to catch up some time
Jan 26, 2020
[Frameworks] 44 frameworks for your life
Jan 25, 2020
[Frameworks] 20 Frameworks for your professional life
Jan 24, 2020
Random Design Gyaan 2 - Secret discussion between ICICI designers
Jan 23, 2020
[Product Spec] Emoji Reactions on Twitter Messages
Jan 22, 2020
How to think about a job switch
Jan 21, 2020
[Project Aristos] PM Coaching
Jan 20, 2020
Random Design Gyaan 1 - Ticker on Swiggy
Jan 19, 2020
Medium vs Substack
Jan 18, 2020
The small things
Jan 17, 2020
Twitter Rules
Jan 16, 2020
Jealousy list
Jan 15, 2020
Personal OKRs for 2020
Jan 14, 2020
So you want to understand LTV and Churn?
Jan 13, 2020
The hardest thing
Jan 12, 2020
How to negotiate during a job hunt
Jan 11, 2020
Short rant on Twitter Topics
Jan 10, 2020
Showing poll results upfront on Twitter
Jan 9, 2020
High Leverage Activities
Jan 8, 2020
Yo Manas, Why don't you startup man?
Jan 7, 2020
A new way of learning
Jan 6, 2020
My favourite posts on designing a new feature
Jan 5, 2020
Online courses I recommend for aspiring PMs
Jan 4, 2020
10X framework: Add a Zero to a metric
Jan 3, 2020
What should I do in life?
Jan 2, 2020
What living in India feels like currently
Jan 1, 2020
How to get shit done
Dec 28, 2019
My favourite books of 2019
Dec 27, 2019
Little things which make Slack great
Dec 26, 2019
Thoughts on Travis Kalanick
Dec 25, 2019
Is there a discovery problem with UberEats?
Dec 24, 2019
Your driver has arrived. What's next?
Nov 24, 2019
Build Measure Learn (for you)
Nov 2, 2019
Product Market fit vs Business Market fit
Nov 1, 2019
Update on my 2019 personal OKRs
Oct 30, 2019
Lessons from Grubhub for Indian Food Delivery Startups
Aug 27, 2019
So you want to learn Business Strategy?
Aug 26, 2019
So you want to learn personal finance and investing?
Aug 25, 2019
[Masterclass] Daniel Negreanu Teaches Poker
Aug 24, 2019
[Masterclass] Phil Ivey Teaches Poker Strategy
Aug 21, 2019
How to win the cloud war? Become a LP in a VC fund
Aug 12, 2019
How to build a super app
Aug 11, 2019
20 lessons from 10 months at Gojek
Mar 12, 2019
6 Proven Tips to Boost your App’s Downloads
Mar 11, 2019
7 Hacks to get 5-Star reviews on Play Store
Mar 10, 2019
What separates good managers from the rest
Mar 9, 2019
Becoming a Product Manager
Mar 8, 2019
How to learn
Mar 7, 2019
The Macro and Micro approach to learning as a Product Manager
Mar 6, 2019
10 Tools for every Mobile Product Manager
Mar 5, 2019
How to read 55+ Books per year
Mar 4, 2019
A simple Growth Model for your Start-Up
Mar 3, 2019
Dear Start Ups : Stop Chasing Vanity Metrics
Mar 2, 2019
What should I read?
Mar 1, 2019
Lessons from B2B: Driving adoption
Feb 23, 2019
How to make big decisions
Feb 22, 2019
You vs Your users
Feb 10, 2019
10 Steps for Landing a Job at a Startup
Sep 4, 2018
Uber’s Rebranding
Jul 22, 2018
Speed as a competitive advantage
May 12, 2018
How you write Product Specs is how you build products
May 6, 2018
Thoughts on Google Duplex
Apr 12, 2018
Product Manager Talk: “Help! Our numbers went down yesterday
Apr 9, 2018
Dunzo and Swiggy
Mar 30, 2018
How I became a Product Manager
Jan 11, 2018
2017: A Product Manager’s Year in Review
Aug 15, 2017
Google Tez's 50 million installs secret sauce
Aug 14, 2017
Please tell me when you turn on your wifi
Aug 13, 2017
Why Jio will crush all ad networks
Aug 12, 2017
Premature scaling will kill your Start-up
Aug 11, 2017
[RCA] Help! Our numbers went down yesterday
Jan 22, 2017
Why I am not crazy about most blockchain projects (yet)
Feb 23, 2016
19 lessons I learned during my first year as a Product Manager
Feb 22, 2016
19 books every PM should read in 2016
Jan 16, 2016
Thoughts from the North-East (India)
Jan 15, 2016
50 Lessons I’ve Learned from working at Start-ups
Jan 14, 2016
11 Habits that changed my life (and will yours too)
Jan 1, 2016
Farewell CouponDunia...