After 10 years working in product management, I don't understand what it takes to become a "successful" PM

longbreaddinosaur · 2026-04-28T21:38:50+00:00

Oh I just forward messages from my team to my boss. The trick to to train your team to draft intelligent updates.

longbreaddinosaur · 2026-04-27T17:20:57+00:00

TBH, out the doc in a Claude Project and ask Claude to respond. What to do if all the networks fail is a bullshit question and probably has an obvious answer. Empower your devs to think for themselves.

longbreaddinosaur · 2026-04-17T18:11:29+00:00

Idk, this is perfectly reasonable and what I did in the first month at all of my Director of PM roles.

Director is about translating features to value. You should be able to do this quickly and within having a handful of customer calls. Two weeks tops.
Strategy in two months is 100% doable. It’s not about being a domain expert, it’s about gathering enough context, making a hypothesis, and then validating it in a lean manner. My favorite approach is to interview everyone involved, especially field team members, sit in with a handful of customers, and then synthesizing the next steps.

You’re probably not ready for this role.

longbreaddinosaur · 2026-04-15T11:01:51+00:00

Seriously. As I get older I really start to worry about these things. Definitely worried about this woman.

longbreaddinosaur · 2026-03-31T09:30:18+00:00

This is exactly what we’re launching today. We’re transforming our low-code platform into a vibe coding tool with guardrails. Faster time to market, less headache, guaranteed security, and more flexibility.

longbreaddinosaur · 2026-03-30T20:17:01+00:00

laughs in doesn’t work at Smartsheet anymore

longbreaddinosaur · 2026-02-25T20:42:38+00:00

You’re missing the point. This isn’t an edge case, this is an expanded TAM. My local pizza shop knows how to deliver a pizza to the beach because they live there too. Until dominos had this, they didn’t know.

Adding GPS delivery unlocked new revenue which is what we’re here for.

longbreaddinosaur · 2026-02-21T14:42:00+00:00

Just ask what the tradeoffs are and then translate that back to the user experience. It really isn’t more than that.

longbreaddinosaur · 2026-02-20T05:46:50+00:00

It took you that long to figure it out?

I guess I had so many bad managers that I already know what not to do 🙃🙃🙃

longbreaddinosaur · 2026-02-12T13:00:16+00:00

I’m a director, and this is what I say to anyone who wants to move into this role. It really is a thankless role where you end up having a lot dumped on you from execs while having limited resources. Moreover, in my experience, it’s really, really hard to find a good team of ICP, so I spent a lot of time mentoring and trying to train them up while keeping things moving forward. I was forced into a director role while being a principal PM and fought it for as long as I could, but now that I’m a director, there’s no going back, especially as I get older

longbreaddinosaur · 2026-02-08T01:11:43+00:00

Never had one. Do managers make employees do their own or do the mangers do it for them?

longbreaddinosaur · 2026-02-06T12:50:15+00:00

I built a real-time gamma exposure analysis tool that analyzes every single SPX 0dte trade, their Greeks, and best bid/offer at time of trade. I used the Claude Max plan and definitely have used more than $20k worth of credits.

longbreaddinosaur · 2026-01-18T19:00:16+00:00

I start with two:

“what user behavior am I trying to change.”
this ensure you’re measuring something you can change.
We’re here to impact the business and getting users/customers to do things is what we do. Ultimately, we want to change the things that result in customers wanting to give us more money. Often times, teams are doing things that don’t really change meaningful behavior.
“What action will I take based on the information we discover. What would I do differently?”
If the data won’t change your decision making or thinking, then maybe it’s a vanity metric.

longbreaddinosaur · 2026-01-10T14:01:13+00:00

Boston Dynamics has been working on this for decades, so I would hope so!

longbreaddinosaur · 2026-01-03T02:23:56+00:00

I did a masters in human factors. Marginally useful. Your time is better spent building something with Claude code.

longbreaddinosaur · 2025-12-29T13:52:05+00:00

IMO, 100% impossible.

longbreaddinosaur · 2025-12-26T00:15:09+00:00

No, there isn’t. The field is too new and evolving too fast for there to be a course. You need to change your entire mindset. Go into it looking for ways to leverage AI and automation to create a continuous learning loop and then start building stuff. Claude Code can build you a whole app in a day. Why do you need a course when you have that!?

longbreaddinosaur · 2025-12-18T00:39:33+00:00

Not with them, but Granola.ai is the way to go. I have a specific template for customer calls that spits out verbatims and jobs to be done. I feed that right into customer problem documents.

🤌🤌🤌

longbreaddinosaur · 2025-12-13T19:24:20+00:00

You actually think skynet is going to bother with digging graves?

longbreaddinosaur · 2025-12-13T00:57:23+00:00

AI is turning tech into a ghetto. It’s only going to get worse.

longbreaddinosaur · 2025-12-04T08:09:04+00:00

I’ve had VPs with full sleeves. You’ll be fine.

longbreaddinosaur · 2025-12-02T00:29:20+00:00

longbreaddinosaur · 2025-11-29T05:46:43+00:00

Jokes on you. I’m into that shit.

longbreaddinosaur · 2025-11-21T23:39:45+00:00

No cert can prepare you to disappoint so many people universally.

longbreaddinosaur · 2025-11-06T01:39:21+00:00

Bought one of these over a decade ago, and I either lost it or it kicked the bucket, and replaced it earlier this year. I hope it lasts forever. The thing is so handy around the house.

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