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Unsell Email

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Lenny’s Podcast115 min

Unorthodox PM wisdom: Automating user insights, unselling job candidates, logging every decision, more

Kevin Yien · Aug 18, 2024
Key learnings
  • Consider entering product management from engineering, design, or sales, since those roles teach you the front-line work a PM…
  • Treat product management as converting a team's potential energy into realized customer value, and only add PMs where that work…
  • Write clearly and compellingly enough that others can act on it; Kevin argues a PM who cannot sell or support their own product…