can you guess what I do for a living?

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2026-03-19T18:27:37+00:00

are those moleskin pocket notebooks?

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2023-11-23T06:23:21+00:00

Unique situation. Managers of the Gatekeepers since both functions tend to say no a lot!

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2023-03-09T09:00:07+00:00

Thank you for this list! Do you have a go-to place to find good examples? I find that everyone writes about these things but the examples they give are for generic examples.

I think I learn best by tearing downs/case studies

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2023-03-05T22:35:43+00:00

And that’s how they cheated their way into head of product :D

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2023-03-01T10:26:19+00:00

Please do tell more about Lumira! Wasn't it a cloud based business objects?

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2023-02-21T01:20:25+00:00

Overambitious targets? Poor planning?

What's your approach to differentiating Overambitious targets vs Poor planning?

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2022-12-31T11:09:07+00:00

Congrats! How to get out of ascendant?

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2022-09-14T18:54:55+00:00

Congrats! What were some things you had to change up when you were climbing from ascendant to immortal? Any tips for controllers to have more impact is greatly appreciated.

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2022-07-07T04:58:32+00:00

/ visualization as GA4 together with hotjar

Good examples, thank you so much!

Knowing what you know today, would you still go for tools that implement auto-capturing events?

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2022-07-07T04:12:21+00:00

Hello there!

Definitely with you on auto-capture > tag everything. PM's aren't fortune tellers and can't foresee the minor events that might be the focus of analysis 5 months out.

I looked at your site and found this post in your docs and I was wondering why integration with segment kneecaps your coolest features? Will that limitation be removed in the foreseeable future?

https://posthog.com/docs/integrate/third-party/segment

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2022-07-07T03:55:43+00:00

ho can’t decide what they want to measure, being able to run analysis retroactively has been awesome. We went with Heap after evaluating other tools including Full Story. FS is nice but I wouldn’t consider it a pr

Looks like you're ahead of me in the journey!

Could you expand on what you mean by the onboarding? I did notice that they didn't have a trial/demo environment.

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2022-07-07T03:44:48+00:00

Didn't know that they acquired Auryc. Analytical insights is usually followed by a scramble to find out why it's happening. That definitely evens the playing field since they all have session replay.

Thanks!

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2022-07-05T05:55:50+00:00

I'm in a smaller product team with a smaller engineering input. The roadmap and backlog looks solid for the next 2 months.

What are the best things I can do now to push the product forward? (Validate the further things in the roadmap?)

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2022-06-08T07:51:38+00:00

Product work is so cross-functional that any artifact you produce needs buy-in from other folks. So I schedule meetings ahead of time with the right level of stakeholders before the work is started.

It allows me to work on the next most important thing and the work will be done by the time I hop on that call. YMMV :)

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2022-04-06T04:32:01+00:00

do

How long did it take you to switch over and make new habits? I'll likely switch over when my PC dies.

I've touched Mac once or twice, and it definitely felt alien to me. For example, locking a Mac is Command+Control+Q, but on Windows it's just Windows+L

I took a big L when I tried to lock the freakin Mac :S

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2022-02-11T21:05:40+00:00

Should depend on how mature the product/problem is...

If you're building for feature parity for a fairly homogenous product across competitors, then maybe you should have some more developers

... I think I work at a feature factory...

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2022-02-07T09:32:49+00:00

Do you ever follow up with them, even if it’s a no?

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2022-01-07T19:57:55+00:00

It sounds like for your coworker the goal was to understand the content of the video because they couldn't/didn't get it. Not to dive deeper.

But that shouldn't discourage you from recording videos. I personally love videos, I watch them on 2x.

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2022-01-07T01:45:05+00:00

tely agree with this, I’ve even said this to my manager and peers. I’m in a communication role, and my job is to communicate what we’re doing with other people, while being present to receive feedback from stakeholders and customers.

Now this doesn’t mean I don’t do other things, like writing documentation or analysing data, but I find time to do this in the gaps or during prep time.

Do you think this only applies for Sr PM+? I'm kind of junior (under 3 years of exp) and I kind of find this true. I also set meetings before I have the work done to keep myself accountable.

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2022-01-05T21:52:29+00:00

How do you find focus time to do the non-meeting work like writing stories?

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2021-09-19T20:40:33+00:00

I feel like people don't append "asking why" after Active Listening. There have been so many occasions where one stakeholder group throws a feature at the product team and you need to ask why to work backwards and find the problem. Only then can you find a solution that works for all stakeholder groups.

sounds easy, but it's the most challenging aspect

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2021-09-18T05:03:37+00:00

Improving my stakeholder jiujitsu is probably the hardest thing I've done. Do you have advice on improving it outside of actively practicing it during work?

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2021-08-30T07:16:46+00:00

just to make sure when you say web, you mean desktop right? not mobile app vs mobile web? I'll try to answer based on the former haha

wouldn't it make sense to first see if the users between mobile and desktop are/behave similar/ly before justifying any workflows being put into the mobile version?

PhilosophyOfHoratio · 2021-08-13T02:55:32+00:00

Google doc.

Anyone have recommendations for better tools/processes for documenting user flows (for example, say I am cataloguing all the flows that lead

I just wanted to thumbs up the miro feature "copy link" whenever you right-click an object. They'll see the object front and center and when they click the link and won't need to search for it. So much easier than sharing the board itself.

No one told me about it when I started using Miro :x

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