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- My Best Practices and Principles for Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) [WIP]
After trying different approaches for PKM over the years and experimenting with tools like Tana, LogSeq, and Obsidian, I have settled on some principles that are simple and effective for me, regardless of the tool I use.
- Employees Are Like Customers - A People Management Framework
Moving into a leadership role is like jumping a canyon because the job's scope changes, said Reforge.
- I built Text-to-chart app by just asking ChatGPT
AI is transforming how entrepreneurs test their ideas.
- The Future of Self-service BI: AI-guided BI
"Most definitions of self-serve analytics are both vague and vaguely tautological"
- Product Strategy vs Video Games: Expansion
There are 3 common expansion pitfalls can lead to defeat in the strategy games like StarCraft, AOE, Total War, etc.
- How we run Weekly Product Updates at Holistics
A few weeks ago, I ran across the story An inside look at how Figma ships product from Yuhki Yamashita, VP Product at Figma, I find how useful it is for people who are operating a product team to learn from each other.
- The Growth Strategy System
My original post on LinkedIn
- Product Principle: "Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible" (WIP)
"Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible" from Alan Kay, is one of my favorite product development principles
- Drive Browser - Make Google Docs and Words Awesome Again (WIP)
Written on 2020-08
- Product Managers should involve Product Designers and Engineers as early as possible
Product Managers should involve Product Designers and Engineers as early as possible in the product development process (problem discovery, solution shaping, e.g.)
- The problem statement framework behind famous startup pitch decks
Note: This problem statement framework is intended to assist you in developing startup pitch decks; it may or may not be sufficient for product development.
- A Library of the Best Product Management Books for Product Managers
For the interactive library and the book links please check it out here: Top Product Management Books and Guidebooks | product management, product | Centroly
- 2021 Hang Tien, Tu Lan - Oxalis (WIP)
In 2020, I played The Forest almost every night during Covid quarantine (2020) to prepare for this trip!
- How Did We Build and Grow dbdiagram.io – 200,000 Users with 0 Dollars Spent on Marketing Budget - Part 2: Grow
How we managed to launch a database designer to more than 200,000 users around the world without a budget.
- 2020 January - Products Roundup
Just a list of cool products I found last month which I have been trying and find useful.
- You are a product, managing yourself is like managing a product
After years of building products, I found some amazing relations between managing products and managing myself.
- How Did We Build and Grow dbdiagram.io - Got 20,000 Users and 2,500 Leads within 2 Months - Part 1: Build
This project started out as a tiny feature intended for our DataOps cloud BI platform, Holistics.io. Our interns helped develop dbdiagram.io, to help our customers visualize their own database relationships as diagrams. This is meant as a quick and simple tool designed for data analysts and developers, to help them design database diagrams by just using their keyboard.