Blog
Below are a few blog posts I’ve written over the years.
- Underrated books by subcontinent authors
- Bangalore food recommendations
- Best employee retention strategy
- Running a project better
- PM'ing and cognitive dissonance
- Discussing politics at work
- Fast paced non fiction recommendations
- Taking my Twitter private
- Urban company
- One level up
- On copying
- Managing PMs
- Hot sector moat
- Exit and entry
- Corporate shenanigans
- Chasing unicorns
- How to grow Ola
- Podcast ideas
- Social media playbook
- Fargo and performative lunacy
- My Apple M1 Macbook Air saga
- Running a productive meeting
- PM'ing like a VC
- Slack update
- PM'ing at a big company
- How to ask for a referral
- Fifa
- On Alex Cohen and Twitter
- [Reforge] Organizational Management
- Eloquence
- Startup themes
- Frontloaded, not backloaded
- Luck vs Skill
- Directi Shamelist
- Kore Shamelist
- Investment lessons from Chamath
- First 90 days
- Playing the PM vs being one
- Thought policing
- Don't copy me
- Scaling decision making
- Internal then external
- [Career Growth] Performance reviews
- Every delivery is different
- Fear and status
- Manager secrets
- Planning a new feature
- MVP
- TV Shows
- Job of a PM
- MBA or not
- Best of 2020
- Happiest man
- Intentional content consumption
- Resume
- Feedback and trust
- Ultimate house hunting checklist
- 30 tips
- Anxiety reduction
- 2020 OKRs Update
- I deleted my Facebook account
- Year end reflection
- Feeling of inadequacy
- VC investment theses
- Least known favourite product
- Experiments and big bets
- How to be strategic
- 3 types of research
- Hard lessons learned as a manager
- Product Critique
- How Mckinsey works
- [Project Athena] Mentoring early PMs
- Craftsvilla learnings
- Coupondunia shamelist
- Fragile
- Advice from mentors [Blind Edition]
- On design reviews
- Before buying a product
- Things I watch on Youtube
- Subreddits I have subscribed to
- Why I am excited about Licious
- Calendar Audit
- Good Report vs Bad Report
- [Career Growth] Performance evaluation
- Digital minimalism
- Don Valentine's investment framework
- Action vs Intention
- Overlap
- PM Interview Questions 2
- Sarcastic
- Go to person for something
- Other 90% of the job
- 2/3
- Dear beginner PM, Say YES
- CashBoss
- Don't impress everyone
- Words matter
- The product spec is for you
- A list of priorities
- Simple goal setting
- Swiggy Super: Subscription programs
- [Meetings Master Post] Meetings gyaan
- [JTBD] Jobs-to-Be-Done Resources
- [Meetings] How to schedule one?
- Why now? Why us?
- [Communication] Diamond and Pyramid
- [Stakeholder Management] Driving consensus
- 3 months of less Twitter
- Day in the life of a big company
- [Meetings] A list of all my meetings
- Dropbox Paper is now mandatory
- Left or Right
- [Meetings] Running efficient meetings
- [Project Management] Cross-team collaboration
- Company Principles, Values and Playbooks
- Getting back your time
- Leading other PMs
- The 5 min pause
- [Communication Master Post] How to communicate better
- [Self Improvement Master Post] Life, Learning and Productivity
- You and Your Research - Richard Hamming
- No as a default
- Streaks on Insight timer
- Instacart turns profitable
- Swiggy's new splash screen
- Peter Thiel vs Jack Dorsey
- [Career Growth] Career development plan for PMs
- Vision, mission, values, and OKRs
- Amazon enters the food delivery war
- Snapchat and self-imposed constraints
- How do we get people to start taking rides again?
- Produce > Process > Impress
- Religion and Truth seeking
- Snapchat stories
- Slack workflow
- [Design] Creation Process and Reviews
- [Stand-ups][IPM][Sprints] Running Sprints and IPMs
- Presidential briefings for key decisions
- [Decision Making] On making good decisions
- Improving my mental health
- Stated vs real reasons
- Project management best practices
- Don't force me to cc your manager
- Building in the times of Covid-19
- Stack
- Pre-mortem & post-mortem
- Push > Pull
- Nostalgia as a service
- Documentation as cache
- Maximizers vs Optimizers
- Cutting down my Twitter usage
- Grammarly's weekly stats mail
- Give your users a superpower
- Thoughts after a month of WFH
- Why you should unfollow me on Twitter
- [PM Career Gyaan Master Post] How to think about your career
- How to think about a job offer
- [Masterclass] Bob Iger teaches Business Strategy and Leadership
- Tipping on Dunzo
- Why RedBus is Red
- So you want to learn Poker?
- Social Media filter
- Why I might never apply for a job at Google
- Statuses on Slack
- Webinars are useless
- Searching for my brother on Google Pay
- Strong opinions, weakly held
- 80/20
- Vision vs Winning
- [Retrospectives] How to run a Retrospective
- [Product Update Email] Emoji Reactions is LIVE
- Predicting the future
- What Anthony Bourdain taught me about PM'ing
- How I find new things to read
- Giving advice
- [Project Apollo] How to run a product team
- [MOM] How to write a MOM the right way
- Coronavirus rant
- Download button on Google Podcast
- Carthago delenda est
- Optimising your life
- Don't push those untested changes on Production
- Seize, Clear, Hold, Build
- PM as energy curator
- The mediocrity principle
- Be a purple cow
- The Coronavirus WFH Reading List - 100 of the best
- Keeping low expectations
- No-mind: Pomp’s interview of Brian Norgard
- A day in my life
- Why Twitter fleets might not work
- On tools
- Automated welcome message on Slack
- [Project Lumos] Product Management Principles, Frameworks & Reads
- Design Jam
- Truth Seeking
- Data driven
- Empty chair
- On truth speaking and not virtue signalling
- Understanding product decisions: Why did they do this?
- What kind of PM do you want yourself to be known as?
- 2 types of requirements document
- YES and NO
- Transportation for kids
- Doing things you don't like
- Steer into the Objection style of presentation
- Calling people Sanghis
- Shitposting on Twitter
- Google Tez
- Levers Dials Pulleys
- Keith Rabois - How to Operate
- Contribution Margin and Predictable Distribution
- On Whatsapp Pay
- A few good podcasts
- How I find books to read
- Incumbents vs Innovators
- How -> What -> Why
- 2 characteristics of great businesses
- You should copy your competitors
- List of books I am reading right now
- Interview Defaults
- Learning a new skill
- Measuring communication
- Swiggy vs Tinyowl vs FoodPanda
- Blue Apron
- Learning Football
- PM Interview Questions 1
- PM ko aata kya hain
- Create your own Life Math Money account
- Capital as a Moat
- [1:1] How to do a proper One on One
- I will say NO to your request to catch up
- [Frameworks] 51 frameworks for your life
- [Frameworks] 46 Frameworks for your professional life
- Random Design Gyaan 2 - Secret discussion between ICICI designers
- [Product Spec] Emoji Reactions on Twitter Messages
- How to think about a job switch
- [Project Aristos] PM Coaching
- Random Design Gyaan 1 - Ticker on Swiggy
- Medium vs Substack
- The small things
- Twitter Rules
- Jealousy list
- Personal OKRs for 2020
- So you want to understand LTV and Churn?
- The hardest thing
- How to negotiate during a job hunt
- Short rant on Twitter Topics
- Showing poll results upfront on Twitter
- High Leverage Activities
- Yo Manas, Why don't you startup man?
- A new way of learning
- My favourite posts on designing a new feature
- Online courses I recommend for aspiring PMs
- 10X framework: Add a Zero to a metric
- What should I do in life?
- What living in India feels like currently
- How to get shit done
- My favourite books of 2019
- Little things which make Slack great
- Thoughts on Travis Kalanick
- Is there a discovery problem with UberEats?
- Your driver has arrived. What's next?
- Build Measure Learn (for you)
- Product Market fit vs Business Market fit
- Update on my 2019 personal OKRs
- Lessons from Grubhub
- So you want to learn Business Strategy?
- So you want to learn personal finance and investing?
- [Masterclass] Daniel Negreanu Teaches Poker
- [Masterclass] Phil Ivey Teaches Poker Strategy
- How to win the cloud war? Become a LP in a VC fund
- How to build a super app
- 20 lessons from 10 months at Gojek
- 6 Proven Tips to Boost your App’s Downloads
- 7 Hacks to get 5-Star reviews on Play Store
- What separates good managers from the rest
- Becoming a Product Manager
- How to learn
- The Macro and Micro approach to learning as a PM
- 10 Tools for every Mobile Product Manager
- How to read 55+ Books per year
- A simple Growth Model for your Start-Up
- Dear Start Ups : Stop Chasing Vanity Metrics
- What should I read?
- Lessons from B2B: Driving adoption
- How to make big decisions
- You vs Your users
- 10 Steps for Landing a Job at a Startup
- Uber’s Rebranding
- Speed as a competitive advantage
- How you write Product Specs is how you build products
- Thoughts on Google Duplex
- [RCA]“Help! Our numbers went down yesterday
- Dunzo and Swiggy
- How I became a Product Manager
- 2017: A Product Manager’s Year in Review
- Google Tez's 50 million installs secret sauce
- Please tell me when you turn on your wifi
- Why Jio will crush all ad networks
- Premature scaling will kill your Start-up
- On blockchain projects
- 19 lessons I learned as a beginner Product Manager
- 19 books every PM should read in 2016
- Thoughts from the North-East
- 50 Lessons learned from working at startups
- 11 Habits that changed my life
- Farewell CouponDunia...