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Rameez Kakodker
PTOTD#80

Own your calendar. Sacrificing your time to please others will lead to mental and physical damage.

Thoughts on the PTOTD

If you are not careful with your calendar, it will be full of meetings all day, all week – Say goodbye to your lunch 👋.

If you don’t learn how/when to say “Yes… but” (i.e., No) early on, your backlog, features, priorities… even your calendar will be a mess.

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  1. Learning to say no is a difficult but an important part of PM roles.
  2. Reliable PMs tend to take the least amount of risk and consistently delivery tiny incremental growth. Good PMs tend to take more risks and deliver sporadic bursts in growth. Choose your path.
  3. In the early stages of your product, it’s perfectly fine to do things that don’t scale. It’ll help your product grow.
  4. Leaders are not made by position — they are first formed in the absence of leadership.
  5. It is OK to be wrong – especially early in your career. Learn from being wrong – both as a cause & effect as well as the network effect.
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