Everyone sells you a 90-day plan for a new job. Ninety days is enough time to look busy. It isn't enough time to be useful. All Over It covers the first twenty-four weeks of a new product management job — forty chapters, each with a week number, an action item, and the reasoning behind it. I'm Daniel Thomason: I lead Payments at Google, where I look after the product vision for Android and Chrome payment ecosystems, and before that I was an economist at Australia's central bank. This is the book I wish someone had handed me when I started.

Most books about starting a new job give you principles. This one gives you dates:

• Week 2 — Get access to your product's logs and analytics. Not because you need them yet, but because access takes three weeks and VP questions arrive with three hours' notice.
• Week 5 — Start contributing. Not week 1. The urge to prove yourself immediately costs you the only learning window you'll get.
• Week 9 — Find the thing only one person in the company understands, and write it down.
• Week 13 — Ship something with a name. People talk about things that have names.
• Week 18 — Only now try to write a vision. Earlier and you neither know enough nor have the credibility to sell it.
• …and thirty-five more, covering habits and routines, relationships, your internal brand, your education, early impact, and long-term success.