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The textures of Product Management have changed, the role remains the same Lately, I've been having a LOT of fun getting back into building. I built a 55 page digital product, end...
12 July 20262 min read
We haven't had a UI/UX designer at Emoneeds for over a year now. But we just shipped some of our best designed products. When I moved back and started building out our tech...
8 March 20262 min read
How I prepared for MBA product management recruiting: frameworks, company-specific guides, and what I got wrong.
29 April 202514 min read
I can't believe I just cured my motion sickness! For the longest time, I never refrained from using my phone in a car because the moment the car started moving it would give me...
28 February 20251 min readNews Bits
❌ ✈️ Flying Sucks Now, Doesn’t It? ❌ ✈️ Remember the first few times you ever flew? Wasn’t it magical? It would be exciting. You would pack your bags and be ready to leave the...
27 February 20251 min readNews Bits
🕵 Spy bots are real! 🕵 If you thought you're the only one using AI, remember, even secret spies use chatbots in their daily lives. 🙃 The CIA has rolled out an AI powered...
31 January 20251 min readNews Bits
❄️ Through the harshest winters, come the smartest rings 💍 I recently read about the story of ŌURA, the smart ring company. But I was quite impressed to see that this was one of...
29 January 20251 min readNews Bits
The newest way to no code is to... code? 🚀 "We don’t care about building for professional coders anymore." This is what Amjad Masad, the founder of Replit has said. Replit is a...
27 January 20251 min readNews Bits
🌶️ It's getting Big Spicy in Big Tech 🌶️ I recently saw Zuck's interview on the Joe Rogan and was quite surprised by the sheer shade he threw by calling out Apple for what he...
20 January 20251 min readNews Bits
🚨 Real time wildfire updates save lives 🚨 It has obviously been very hard to read about one of the most devastating wildfire seasons in Los Angeles. Among all this, I felt a...
16 January 20251 min readNews Bits
If you’re making your users wait, atleast make it fun 🤓 I was ordering something on Zomato, a food delivery app in India. And when I was waiting for my order to be confirmed, I...
4 January 20251 min readNews Bits
Your Year Wrapped As the sun sets on your year, take a few moments to think about the experiences, people, art, hardships and achievements you have encountered. Re read your...
30 December 20241 min readNews Bits
Just found out about 'blind box live streaming' in China where they have gamified livestream shopping.. Gambling + Shopping + Community Viewers pay small amounts to purchase...
15 November 20241 min readNews Bits
I just saw the classiest response by a company that just got sherlocked! 📵 Being sherlocked is a phenomena in the tech industry where a third party improvement to an existing big...
19 July 20241 min readNews Bits
The world just got a little more easier to talk to! A few weeks ago, Google Translate straight up doubled the number of languages they support by adding 110 new ones thanks to the...
12 July 20241 min readNews Bits
We could be talking to animals soon 🦁 Just read about the Coller Doolittle challenge. Jeremy Coller (chairman of Coller Capital and philanthropist) has just offered $10M to...
2 July 20241 min readNews Bits
Maybe less is better? Have you ever felt like you want to downgrade to a dumb phone to reduce distractions and social media addictions, but there you cannot because maps...
27 June 20241 min readNews Bits
Have you had a chance to use Perplexity yet? It is quickly gaining traction and becoming an addition to my GenAI stack. Where tools like ChatGPT, Gemini etc are being used to...
18 June 20241 min readNews Bits
Apple announced Apple Intelligence (AI lol) at WWDC yesterday. And in typical Apple fashion, it's late to the game, but it looks polished. Some interesting features I saw The Siri...
11 June 20242 min readNews Bits
I believe governments and law making bodies have the strongest authority and opportunity to solve climate change. Companies are created on capitalist principles, and its very hard...
27 March 20231 min readNews Bits
A quick one for today, but enough said. 😆 newsbits
22 March 20231 min readNews Bits
Its time to stop investing your money emotionally, and learn how money works. Many of us may not even know how most of the popular companies today earn and spend money. Are they...
17 March 20231 min readNews Bits
Did you know about this Facebook hardware product called the Portal which was almost sold off to Amazon? They are shutting it down. The Facebook Portal was a highly acclaimed...
10 March 20231 min readNews Bits
Would you pay 60$ a month for a dating app? What about 500$? 🤯 Firstly did you know that a majority of popular dating apps are owned by one company? Match Group Global ones like...
27 February 20231 min readNews Bits
If the new generations are getting most of their content online, they should be taught to distinguish between real and fake news. Teachers have noticed a clear decline in reading...
25 February 20231 min readNews Bits
What should we really use our manager 1 on 1s for? Recently I came across this question in a thread. Many of us might be lucky enough to have managers who have blocked a 30 min...
23 February 20231 min readNews Bits
Ways you never knew you could use ChatGPT The other day, for the first time I felt the true power of a tool like ChatGPT, when it straight up gave me the exact Excel formulas I...
21 February 20231 min readNews Bits
A simple slide deck went viral in 2009 because it was revolutionary. Yes I’m talking about the Netflix culture deck that was published in 2009 by Reed Hastings (The CEO). This...
19 February 20231 min readNews Bits
Don’t ban ChatGPT in schools. Teach with it. As we all know, ChatGPT has taken the entire world by storm. There hasnt been this much buzz and amazement about some tech for a long...
17 February 20231 min readNews Bits
How to use LinkedIn more effectively to attract more recruiters, from a Senior Product Designer at LinkedIn! I found this really nice article from Katie Jacquez, who gave some...
15 February 20231 min readNews Bits
What if you woke up one day and almost 60% of your meetings were gone from the calendar? Thats what Shopify decided to do, last month. They have removed all recurring meetings...
13 February 20231 min readNews Bits
If only I had access to this information in school and university…. Whether you are interested in being a veterinarian, pilot, product manager, chef, music composer, banker...
9 February 20231 min readNews Bits
Pinterest's 2023 trend predictions predictions People use Pinterest to save interesting things that are up and coming. That means they may on to what’s next. They also mentioned...
7 February 20231 min readNews Bits
Some delightful easter eggs I found while using PayPay Corporation's app. One of my favourite use cases of PayPay is that I can pay my utility bills directly through them by...
1 February 20231 min readNews Bits
2022 in search trends 1. Interesting to see how NFT surged and then died down 2. Wordle had been quite relevant all throughout the year, but I think it lost steam after the NYT...
30 January 20231 min readNews Bits
Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder 12ft.io is a site that removes most paywalls, ads and other distractions from online articles by showing the cached version...
27 January 20231 min readNews Bits
An epic battle between the growth PM, the revenue PM and legal PM at The Weather Channel 😆 Growth PM Pushing the user to download the mobile app, or create an account Revenue PM...
26 January 20231 min readNews Bits
How to deal with an intense amount of junk mail in Japan Every time I emptied my mailbox, in a few days I could count almost 50+ pieces of mail that were completely useless to me...
25 January 20231 min readNews Bits
Lenny Rachitsky is hands down the best product newsletter writer out there. I like his newsletter because instead of just using theory or jargon, it gives us real life stories and...
23 January 20231 min readNews Bits
A primer on customer interviews from the best in the business Teresa Torres who is the author of Continuous Discovery Habits, recently wrote this post to give very straightforward...
19 January 20231 min readNews Bits
Some interesting insights from surveys done in 2022 1. 40% of Americans are typically making cashless purchases throughout the week 2. 30% of TikTok adult users say thats they...
17 January 20231 min readNews Bits
Murphy’s law: If there is a test, there will be a way to cheat it 😂 Many Chinese students have been cheating on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (Toefl) exam since it...
15 January 20231 min readNews Bits
Soon AI could help you automate things like filing complaints, cancelling subscriptions and fighting parking tickets… DoNotPay has just launched a new AI powered chatbot to...
13 January 20231 min readNews Bits
Reading books is the most efficient way to absorb wisdom. If you don’t already read, well it’s never too late to do that. Read what you love, until you love what to read. If you...
11 January 20231 min readNews Bits
🗞 Introducing News Bits 🗞 I spend more than an hour daily reading tech, business, finance, and pop culture news from all around the internet. But just reading and moving on...
10 January 20231 min readNews Bits
Rome was not built in a day, but mymizu web mvp was 😎 Super happy to finally showcase the magic of our volunteer team, who smashed this out in such a short amount of time!...
16 September 20221 min readupdatemymizu
For three years, I struggled to take advantage of the insanely popular Rakuten Travel Super Sale because it was only available on the Japanese site and was not a UX I was used to...
1 September 20221 min read
Sometimes I’m myself surprised by the reach of mymizu! I was at the airport and almost all free water refill spots are registered by our community with precise details on where to...
3 August 20221 min readnote
Lucky to join and contribute to one of the most impactful years of mymizu. 💧 Among so many impacts and milestones, I wanted to share some that we were able to achieve on the...
31 January 20221 min readupdatemymizu
How to use technology to save the world!
24 December 20217 min read
You can easily develop the PM mindset regardless of your current role!
7 December 20214 min read
The personal and professional reasons for why Product Management could be a great career option for you!
11 November 20214 min read
Life and work could be very different depending on what type of organization you work at!
9 November 20216 min read
10 pieces of advice to ace the starting point of your career!
6 September 20212 min read
A great source for expertly handpicked tech/product news. Every morning over the past year, I have looked forward to reading the Techmeme newsletter. The newsletter curates and...
20 July 20211 min readnote
How would teleportation look like as a product? Today, as part of a Product Manager training at Rakuten, we were asked to create a product map for moonshot projects. Our team got...
14 July 20211 min readNews Bits
Super happy to be the product lead for this update. I joined mymizu as a volunteer because I wanted to make large scale impact using my skills. Every day mymizu reaches a step...
9 July 20211 min readupdatemymizu
You can be digitally sustainable too! Have you ever thought about the thousands and thousands of emails and attachments sitting in your inbox that you probably will never open...
8 July 20211 min readnote
Can exes still be friends? Recently I cancelled my paid Medium subscription because I slowly shifted to Twitter and newsletters for my reading. I was quite surprised and happy to...
7 July 20211 min readNews Bits
Zoom Hack If you like me struggled for more than a year doing an 8 click process to copy your personal Zoom link (link only, password included) from your Zoom app to your...
29 June 20211 min readguide
Use technology the right way to save lost time and reduce mental stress.
18 April 20219 min read
Here is the third and final part of my PM toolkit series.
1 October 20204 min read
Hello again! If you have been reading my previous posts, you are probably familiar with the Venn diagram I created to give a clear…
26 August 20207 min read
In my last posts, I have been talking a lot about Product Management,
23 August 20204 min read
In my last post describing What Product Management Is, I introduced a graphic that helped me put my definition of a PM in a comprehensible…
23 August 20205 min read
Hi everyone! Firstly I want to thank everyone for the great response to my last story. I had quite a few people reach out to me, and it…
29 June 20204 min read
I still remember my first internship as a web developer. The summer after my freshman year, I entered the office of an Indian unicorn…
23 June 20209 min read