The Manager's Handbook
Sit next to your EM and DMHave a weekly meeting to align on priorities, share information, and unblock the team.Spend time outside of work hours in order to connect as humans.
Lenny Rachitsky • 14 Habits of Highly Effective Product Managers
Every single person with whom you work has a vastly different set of needs. They are chaotic beautiful snowflakes. Fulfilling these needs is one way to make them content and productive. It is your full-time job to listen to these people and mentally document how they are built. This is your most important job. I know the senior VP of engineering is
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One heterodox recommendation I have for audio and video calls when you’re working in a distributed fashion is not to mute, if you can help it. When you’re speaking to a muted room, it’s eerie and unnatural — you feel alone even if you can see other people’s faces. You lose all of those spontaneous reactions that keep a conversation flowing. If you
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