Most product channels focus on product management processes or people…

Most product channels focus on product management processes or people management. Whatever I read, it’s checklists everywhere, method descriptions, typical communication problems and career paths. This knowledge is already available in pretty large quantities everywhere. Same Reforge. Even easier: go to ChatGPT and ask, describing the situation. Trust me, the answers will be dope.

I think it’s not that important. More precisely: there are, as it seems to me, more important things.

Endless learning of frameworks helps settle the picture in your head, understand the structure better. But often the problem is in the question: “so what the hell do I do right now, and why?”

Strategy. Priorities and, as a consequence, features. The ability to do things on time while keeping focus and to throw out optimizations in favor of 10x growth. For these tasks I consider important:
- constant practice in the sector/industry, you won’t win this with theory
- network, as a tool to validate your logic
- understanding releases from both the side of corporations and startups that are trying to outrun them
- macro analysis, because why make yet another wrapper around the ChatGPT API if you don’t understand the fundamental constraints and problems
- deep understanding of the underlying technologies at the base of products
- analysis of the VC market and preferably top-tier, because the whole team there works on the points above
- predict, write down what you think is relevant and watch the market dynamics—did you guess, what reasons did you see to make the forecast
- an extreme degree of self-criticism

In this small channel I’m trying to develop this in myself and my readers. And yeah, I love open, honest questions and comments.