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📝 Essays

Many are still in draft form (⚒️) as I usually publish the outline first and write later

• ⭐ Visual Book Collection for Product Managers
• PM should involve Product Designers and Engineers as early as possible
• ⚒️ The 2 Components of Product Management (WIP)
• Building a Public Product Roadmap

Product Strategy

• ⚒️ Strategy Games (like Starcraft, AoE) vs Product Strategy (WIP)
• ⭐ Product Strategy vs Video Games: Expansion
• ⭐ Growth Strategy System

Management and Leadership

• Employees are like customers – A People Management Framework

Product Design

• ⚒️ Product Principle: “Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible” (WIP)

Startups

• The problem statement framework behind famous startup pitch decks (WIP)

Problem-solving

• Problem Solution Co-evolution

BI and Analytics

• ⭐ The Future of Self-service BI: AI-guided BI
• ⭐ 4 Case Study Questions for Interviewing Data Analyst at a Startup
• A Guide to Build Reporting Analytics on MongoDB
• How to use Power BI on Mac Devices
• Using Pivot Table for Dummies with Pokemon Data
• A Database Diagram Designer Built for Developers and Analysts

My Products

dbdiagram.io – Top #1 Database Diagram Tool

• ⭐ dbdiagram.io – Part 1: Build – Got 20,000 Users And 2,500 Leads Within 2 Months
• ⭐ dbdiagram.io  -  Part 2: Grow – 200,000 Users with 0 Dollars Spent on Marketing Budget

Others

• Introducing Holistics Open-source Smart Date Parser
• I built Text-to-chart app by just asking ChatGPT
• ⚒️ Drive Browser – Make Google Docs and Words Awesome Again (WIP)

Others

• Product Round-ups
  • 2020 January – Products Roundup
• Traveling
  • 2021 – Hang Tien & Tu Lan
  • 2019 – Vancouver
  • 2017 – Singapore and Thailand
  • 2016 – Seattle and Portland
  • …

WIP

• Time to Value (WIP)
• Product Management Career Ladder (WIP)
• SaaS vs Platform (WIP)
• The Great SaaS Silos (WIP)
• Build a Product instead of a Company (WIP)
• Simple SEO Tips That Just Work (WIP)