Long term, I believe that your career will be largely defined by getting lucky and the rate at which you learn. I have no advice about luck, but to speed up learning I have two suggestions: work at a rapidly expanding company, and make your peers your first team.

Short, sweet, to-the-point.

When your team escalates to you, it is not always necessary (or wise) to "accept" the escalation. Sometimes, the right thing to do is to hand the problem back. That doesn't mean being unhelpful, though! The HBR article provides a set of really good questions to help frame these kinds of conversations:

• “What have you tried?”
• “Who—or what—is getting in the way of tackling this?” helps you get to the root of what’s stopping them from solving the problem themself.
• “What support do you need?”
• “What would you do if you were in my seat?”
• “Is there anything else I should know?” leaves them to solve the problem while validating your support.

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Reading time: 5min / Summary: Shreyas Doshi became an important figure of product management over the years, thanks to his threads and insights about what he’s learnt during his career.

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One of the most harmful pieces of advice is to …

I have been stuck. Every time I sit down to write a blog post, code a feature, or start a project, I come to the same realization: in the context of AI, what I’m doing is a waste of time. It’s horrifying. The fun has been sucked out of the process... | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad. Founder of Svbtle.

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