Eric Yang

The smallest changes bring outsized results. Start by leaving work with gas still in the tank. Feeling consistently energized is 1000% underrated.

Bob Iger just sent a company wide email telling all employees to print out their ten best pages of scripts and bring them to the 15th floor of Disney HQ by 1am for review

@PawelHuryn great lessons!

What do Apple, Google, and Intuit have in common? Bill Campbell, "The Trillion-Dollar Coach." Top 6 lessons from the legendary coach of Silicon Valley: 🧵

@SejalSud Not talked about enough is taking a gap year in the middle of college: just the right amount of time to start developing interests. Most people need more time in the real world before making important choices in college - not just an incubated sphere of professors & academics

What are your views on taking a gap year before college?

@mike_krupin If you get a chance please check out what we're doing at productbase.io! These are tools for entry-level PM's, aimed to decomplexify knowledge.

What side project are you working on right now? #buildinpublic

@businessbarista first break

What are the most difficult "firsts" for an entrepreneur?

@rajshamani just want money 🙏😇

If someone has to hire you, describe yourself in three words.

@saeedwkhan Frameworks help "frame" the "work" — generate/organize additional perspectives about a certain situation. But the actual product decisions, strategy building, needs to involve inputs beyond the framework to be meaningful.

Why are so many #product people talking about frameworks these days? Like somehow frameworks are the way to solve problems. You just have to know which one to pick etc. Did I missing the memo? Wasn't like this 5 years ago from what I recall. #prodmgmt

@bradvangelder @arvidkahl since september, i've been doing productbase.io — a hub of resources for entry-level PMs

What side projects are you all working on? 😀 #buildinpublic

@heyeaslo for people just starting out... just email people directly, (and only when you *really* have something worthwhile to say.) Do unscalable things early on, build relationships, then go platform.

What's the best platform for newsletters?

@aaditsh @TheOdinProject is hands-down the best entry-level coding course for people who want to solo-build software right away.

What's the best online course you've taken?

Thanks for reading! We just launched the Product Playbook, a guide to product principles & frameworks used by the best PMs. Hope you can give it a read! productbase.io/playbook

3 ways to build high-quality relationships as a PM: 1/ Get rid of the chain of command 2/ Distribute decision-making 3/ Acquire buy-in at every turn

After talking to dozens of PMs, they all agreed: Successful PMs are incredible at building relationships. 3 ways to build high-quality relationships as a PM:

making waves at productbase.io lately. working with a group of ~50 early users to build something that will 10x PM skill-development. If you're interested in transitioning into PM roles drop a 👋 & I'll make sure you get first-looks at everything we do.

Taking your thinking from feature-level to product-level is a rite of passage every successful founder, PM, product-adjacent role has had to go through. Concerning yourselves with the "what" over the "why" is guaranteed failure.

Process-obsession needs to be abandoned. E.g. learn that agile isn't *always* the way to go. Depending on the # of knowns, runway, access to expertise, defaulting to waterfall (or other methods) is valid. It's all about context.