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How to get rich

Wealth buys your freedom You want wealth because it buys you freedom—so you don’t have to wear a tie like a collar around your neck; so you don’t have to wake up at 7:00 a.m. to rush to work and sit in commute traffic; so you don’t have to wast...

You need to have a vision

You can’t be reactive. You have to have a sense of where you’re going. Because if you don’t, how can you know how to respond to the troubles that pop up along the way?

Is everything going to be okay?

If we mean, ‘Is everything going to be the way it is going to be?’ then the answer is yes. Of course. If we define whatever happens as okay, then everything will be.

No one escapes this law

Bad character might drive someone into a position of leadership—because of their ambition, their ruthlessness, their shamelessness—but eventually, inevitably, this supposed “strength” becomes an Achilles’ heel when it comes time to actually do ...

You should always find something to do

We kill time as time is literally killing us. Who says you’ll get more moments? Can you really afford to let any be wasted?

Don’t confuse a bug’s priority with its severity

Effective bug triage is an essential hygiene and success factor for anyone managing a software release. Knowing how to look at a bug and then attach a priority to it is the first step in an effective triage process. While knowing how severe a b...

The stories the people closest to Kobe Bryant keep remembering

It seems pretty simple to me, you love what you do. You figure out how to do that to the best of your abilities. And you don’t stop until you figure it out.

You aren’t communicating nearly enough

If you develop the habit of communicating problems as soon as you suspect them, instead of waiting until there is no hope, you and your team are going to be much happier.

Problems, not solutions

Despite the most visible or tangible artifact being what we ship at the end of the day, the most valuable contribution a product manager can make is properly framing the problem at the onset, to ensure we’re delivering the right solution, to th...

Great PMs don’t spend their time on solutions

I encourage you to try changing how you spend your time. Do it on something small, obsess about the problem definition. Then see how fast and easy it is to know what to build, to build it, and to see customers value it because you truly underst...