Great products have the following qualities —

• Simple
• Personalized
• Instant
• Original content

Great products need —

• Courage
• Fast decision making
• Patience

How to make decisions as a Product Manager —

1. Ask questions
2. Form an opinion
3. Engage in debate
4. Devil is in the details (deep dive)
5. Knowledge of the stakes — low stakes (roll it back) vs high stakes (can’t roll it back)
6. Eliminate or disclose “yickiness” — being transparent (eg. Consents, privacy policies, releases etc.)
7. Keep calm and follow scientific decision making
8. Ignore sunk costs — focus on how to invest money going forward
9. Focus on long term strategy
10. The power of NO
11. Focus on strengths
12. Differentiate yourself
13. Obsess over customers
14. Define stakes, process, timings
15. Find the data
16. Focus on long term strategy
17. Challenge plans — be courageous
18. Urgent vs. Important
19. Patience to build platform
20. Double down on delight
21. Can’t measure everything
22. Cost of ethics and brand
23. Practiced art — ask lots of questions, frame an opinion and engage in meaningful debate
24. Debate, Decide, Do (ask the opposing part to debate on your behalf)
25. Learning is more important than knowing
26. Getting from 50% to 70% of right decision making
27. Define strategy , tactics , metrics
28. Embrace consumer science
29. Frame stakes and process
30. Embrace risk
31. Stay humble