Career
📝 On Product Sense Interviews
I've been spending a good bit of time in the Product Manager interview cycle lately, and with that comes new games to learn. One recurring game that keeps coming back is the "Product Sense" interview...
Conor Dewey
Career
🔭 Learnings from 4 Years at Metabase
After 4 exciting years, I’m parting ways with Metabase. It’s been a fulfilling run, working with smart people to build the most delightful business intelligence tool out there while scaling the team from 25 → 100+ employees...
Life
🙏 29 Principles for 29 Years
Today I turned 29 and this birthday has more of a “nothing” feeling than those before it. I don't quite have an answer for why that's the case. Maybe it's part of getting older. Maybe it's more stability in my day-to-day than in years past...
Thinking
☯️ On Black and White Thinking
We often focus on the “right” way to do things, but just as important, is the “wrong” way to go about things. I’ve recently become much more aware of an anti-pattern that I keep running up against...
Reading
🌍 Notes on A Man Without a Country
A Man Without a Country is a collection of essays from author Kurt Vonnegut. It’s a short and informal read, like chatting with a friend over a cup of coffee, a friend with uniquely lighthearted and thoughtful views...
Life
🙏 28 Principles for 28 Years
I turned 28 years old a few weeks ago. It feels simply alright. I’m both as grateful as ever, and things are as hard as ever. I’ve written some version of this post each year, for the last 6 years...
Career
🚸 Proposal for a Less Common Career Path
There are a seemingly endless number of ways to make a living today. This optionality can paralyze young people, and rightfully so, as it all feels very permanent and important...
Life
🙏 27 Principles for 27 Years
It’s that time of the year where I reflect on another trip around the sun. I’m turning 27 years old and unsurprisingly I don’t feel different than I did yesterday. But if I turn the clock back a year earlier, it does feel quite different now...
Reading
💭 Notes on Managing Oneself
We've got decades and decades of career left. This gets much less intimidating when you have a sense of how and when to change the work we do. Peter Drecker's Managing Oneself provides provoking questions on precisely this...
Reading
🧩 Notes on Good Strategy Bad Strategy
The most recent gap I discovered in my PM skillset was around developing and articulating a strategy in different product areas. I was recommended Good Strategy Bad Strategy to help out. It didn't disappoint...
Product
🗺️ How to Navigate Ambiguous Projects
Product management can be a frustratingly broad field. There are a seemingly endless number of mental "muscles" to train at any given time. From strategy to research to prioritization to execution...
Reflection
📆 2022 Year in Review
Happy new year! It’s time for another annual review in which I look back on how the last 365 days turned out for me. I'll follow a similar structure as last year's review with these two prompts...