“What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.”[1] I believe this to be true—and yet, if I were judged by what I do evey day, and not what I do once in a while, I’d be found wanting. Up until the past few years of my life my [...]
Author: mikalfm
Product Management is an Apprentice Craft
Product management is about street-smarts, not booksmarts. Concept in brief. Product Management is an apprentice craft. It's learned in the real world, not in a textbook. It's not gained by hubris; it's pursued through praxis, applied theory, aka shipping products. Concept in action. There are three types of investments you can make to develop product [...]
Mixtape Drake.
When it's mixtape season hustle is the strategy. You give away a superior product purposefully to build awareness of your brand and connections with your customers.
Go DJ
The Summer I Learned the Hustler’s Yes. How I became a house party DJ in one summer with one turntable. This is a tribute to Florida A&M, the castle on the hill, and the one summer my love for hip hop became more than a hobby, and to the friends who pushed me there. Warning—if [...]
Coin Flip Decisions
Coin flip decisions and where to find them
2019 Essays In Review
A review of 2019's essays on Product Intuition, Leading in the Modern Workplace, and Personal Development
Product Intuition, A Prelude
Product Intuition is the skill of cultivating luck to finding and developing “non-consensus and right” products and product strategies. And I'm writing a book about it.
The Maladjusted Leader
To become a better leader, become better at managing stress.
Lottery Tickets Are Bad Investments… For Everyone Except the Winners
On the importance of placing high upside bets
To grow your career: Create less crap. Be more awesome.
Success is preparation. As a result of preparation, we recognize opportunities when they come near, like old acquaintances, familiar with a lot of catching up to do. Chase, Chancy and Creativity refers to this as Type III Chance: Chance III involves a special receptivity, discernment, and intuitive grasp of significance unique to one particular recipient. [...]
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