AOL's Shingy, product management version.<p>Buzzwords, pseudoscience, gibberish and few actual content. All within a complete lack of structure, and slides with dense/long text, and a lot of irrelevant self-referencing noise.<p>- Want to improve your diet? ask a healthcare professional, not a product manager.<p>- Want to improve your sleep? ask a healthcare professional, not a product manager.<p>- Got carpal tunnel from typing? Total lifehack, that's so 10x. How about getting an ergonomist to assess your desk? You can get an assessment for free from your employer.<p>- Want to optimize meetings? Set an agenda. Make people optional if they're not required. Appoint a moderator that keeps the meeting on track. Write down the minutes of the meeting... If there's no agenda, no meeting.<p>- Use 3 monitors? why not 5. Or 10.<p>- Want to prototype an idea fast? Use paper. Use powerpoint. Use your goddamn imagination. Don't throw team members at it in an app unless you absolutely need to.<p>What is a great product manager? Start by managing a product to achieve a material, tangible and significant positive effect on an important product, understand how it happened, and make that success reproducible.<p>How to not be a great product manager? Do not try to understand why a product is successful. Just assign the credit to yourself.
Been thinking about joining Product School. The fee is quite steep, 8.5K or something.<p>Does anyone have experience with doing their course and actually getting a job as Product Manager at a good company in San Francisco / Bay Area?