One of the best pieces of advice I’ve heard for career growth is “Build your career like you would your product.” We’ve built up all these skills when we’re planning products, with clear priorities, milestones, tradeoffs, and success metrics.
Great read, Ami. I appreciate the practical steps you've outlined for aligning career growth with product development principles. Treating ourselves as an ongoing project resonates deeply.
The idea of shipping a 'next version' of yourself is powerful. Viewing personal development as disciplined iterations turns plans into action. Feedback as 'feature requests' makes growth feel like building toward the future.
One approach I've found helpful is setting personal KPIs alongside goals. Writing them down keeps me accountable daily. For example, a KPI could be to talk to one new customer each week or, on a personal level, spend one hour of uninterrupted playtime with my kids each workday.
Thanks for sharing this. Looking forward to applying these tactics in my journey.
I just started a new role last week. And I feel this is a great post to navigate myself and set up my expectations for myself and my growth.
Great read, Ami. I appreciate the practical steps you've outlined for aligning career growth with product development principles. Treating ourselves as an ongoing project resonates deeply.
The idea of shipping a 'next version' of yourself is powerful. Viewing personal development as disciplined iterations turns plans into action. Feedback as 'feature requests' makes growth feel like building toward the future.
One approach I've found helpful is setting personal KPIs alongside goals. Writing them down keeps me accountable daily. For example, a KPI could be to talk to one new customer each week or, on a personal level, spend one hour of uninterrupted playtime with my kids each workday.
Thanks for sharing this. Looking forward to applying these tactics in my journey.
hard and important questions to ask ourselves, time to get to work answering them.
love this !!
What's your approach to seeking out new opportunities? How would this relate to a product approach?