Consumers and Creators

In the human society, everyone is supposed to be of use to somebody. Farmers grow crops which is of use to every living human being, bakers bake, bus drivers take people from A to B, painters paint, manufacturing units churn out 'things' that is used by a lot of people, software makers build software that …

Features vs Value

I used to be in marketing before I became a product manager. One of the earliest lessons (thru feedback) that I learnt was that while writing customer facing copies one should always talk about the value that customer will get rather than writing about the feature that the team has shipped. Both are technically same …

New year resolution template

The month of December is the Friday of the year. The second half of the month, like any Friday, whizzes past. Not a lot of work gets done and everyone is in a joyful mood. After Friday comes Monday (because weekends are usually a blur!). So if December is Friday, what does that make January? …

Good, bad and awesome

We hear about going above and beyond a lot at workplaces or anywhere something is expected. It all starts with understanding what we are expected to go above and beyond of. This is where setting the right expectations come into picture. If one knows what is expected of them, that gives them a fair chance …

Learning vs Earning

There is usually a tradeoff between learning and earning. You can't eat the cake and have it too. You learn by paying money or earning less money and then you earn by providing value to organizations through what you have learnt. If you were to slice your whole life in terms of learning and earning, …

Setting the right expectations

Above everything else, in any relationship, setting the right expectations is the most critical aspect. The more transactional the relationship, more important this particular aspect is to sustain it. In other words, within a family setup, these are important but loosely held, you forgive and help the other when they slip, indefinitely. For example, Take …

Investments vs Expenses

I define "investments" as spending time or money on something that helps you progress towards your goals. On the other hand, "expenses" are money or time spent on things that does not help you with your goals. Obviously, we should increase investments and decrease expenses. Well, that is common sense, you say! It isn't, I …

5 PM tools that I use

Here is my list of 5 tools that I use regularly at my job as a product manager. 1. Confluence Confluence is my go to tool for any writing work. In a PM world 95% of the work is writing work, remaining 5% is talking about the writing. Writing helps me talk to myself, helps …

Understanding the customer cohort

Today I went to a pet shop, to get some aquarium plants for my fish tank. I've gone to other pet shops in the past but I always found it hard to get everything (fish, tank, sand, plants) from one shop. But this one was different, they had fishes, plants, drift wood, pebbles, fish food, …

On credit cards

In this video, I cover the three topics: How do credit cards workShould you get a credit cardBest practices while using a credit card https://www.youtube.com/embed/WEtUGvMfTQU