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Summary: Digital Trends & Friends Podcast

A few weeks ago I spoke with Carlos Lau, the CEO of Kurios.la a Corporate Training Edtech backed by Y Combinator about general topics on Product management.

Short take: Are You Eating Your Own Dog Food?

Some years ago, my Engineering Manager told me: “We need to eat our own dog food more often” If you are as confused as I was at the time, this article is for you.

Building Resilience in the Face of Absent Leadership: Lessons for Product Managers

Product management is a challenging job. It requires a mix of technical, strategic, and leadership skills to be successful. It's even more challenging if your leader is 'absent'

Exponential vs Incremental Thinking

When building products, incremental thinking gives us a fake sense of progress and might prevent our product and company to reach new heights.

Short take: Improving as a PM through Personal Sounding Boards

Building a trusted network of peers and mentors has helped me throughout my career, to keep improving my craft as a PM and also on how to tackle difficult situations.

B2B Product Management: Competitive Analysis

There's more than taking screenshots and building comparison tables when analyzing the competition. In this article, I cover a simple way to understand your competitor's strategy.

Balancing Big Thinking and Fast Execution in B2B Product Management

Counterintuitive? Yes, Possible?, Hell Yeah!

Learning the Dynamics of Working with Sales in B2B Products

Having a strong partnership with Sales is key to being a successful B2B Product Manager, here I'll teach you how to thrive and not just survive.

B2B Product Management: Inertia and Alternatives

This is part 1 of many: Sharing some learnings to make building B2B products less scary.

Mental Models and First Principles Thinking for Product Management

The nature of product management requires a deep understanding of business and user needs, and as early career Product Managers, it can be easy to become overly focused on frameworks and recipes.