How to plot your next career move
I’ve spent my career wandering. When the path seemed interesting and scary, I followed it. If I needed a skill I didn’t have, I chose a path where I could learn it. It’s easy...
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Rebooting our UX and Product Management career path
Last year we merged our Product Management and UX teams. We operate as a single team now with shared management so some of our PMs have managers who are UXers and vice versa. One...
Why domain expertise is dangerous in a product manager
Recently I was talking with a worried head of product management whose team is afraid to ask customers how they used the product because they didn’t want to be seen as not knowing the answers....
Advice from my mom: “Make them tell you no”
After graduate school I was having a tough time finding a job. I was getting rejected for jobs I thought I was qualified for. Then I came across a fellowship opportunity at the Smithsonian and...
