You have two jobs as a Product Manager and you better be good at the first to have time for the second.

A lot of people are attracted to the ‘visionary leader’ part of being a PM and ignore the ‘operator’ part. But if you can’t do the thankless, invisible work of making things run smoothly, you’ll never have the time and space to think about the future.

One of my early mentors Brandon Chu said “I’m always trying to make myself obsolete” which is another way of saying “I try to get everything running so smoothly I don’t have to be there.” I think a lot about that.