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I want to be my sons' hero | sr director of product @nike in #shanghai | food & wine @bottleandflame | all views are my own

Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Joined August 2007
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99% PMs don't know Cursor is GREAT for product work I made a FREE course – learn Cursor IN Cursor! 🔹 Complete guide for product work 🔹 Make PRDs, analyze data, create decks Eventually, I'll sell it for $99. For the next 24h: FREE! Follow + RT + comment "Cursor" & I'll DM it
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It's my #Twitterversary! I have been on Twitter for 15 years, since 10 Aug 2007 (via @twi_age).
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I read something that I found surprisingly powerful today: "Priority does not have a plural." Stick that in your back pocket, Product People.
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#Run done! Feb 4, 2022
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'I will do it tomorrow,' said Toad. 'Today I will take life easy.'
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RT if the NBA should try ugly Christmas sweater jerseys next year 🎄
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Not only useful for cold emails but any work email - be direct. Open with the action needed. Support with background if needed. Close and say thank you
99% of people suck at writing cold emails. I get about 1,000 emails per day, here's what catches my eye 🧵
A leader's job is to hire and lead people who are better than them to do jobs they wouldn't be able to do. And then to simultaneously have the confidence to play the role of leader anyway. This combination of low ego + confidence is one of the defining elements of great leaders.
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I’ve been trying to think who @TedLasso is based on… Who’s that upbeat in Sport? On my run last night I realised, it’s @bennettrun In fact, has anyone ever seen them both in a room together?
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It's my #Twitterversary! I have been on Twitter for 14 years, since 10 Aug 2007 (via @twi_age).
I just graduated from Yale and realized how much more there is to learn. But I did uncover 7 lies you've been told about the world. Here's the truth🧵
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I interviewed someone who told Steve Jobs he was wrong and got promoted. She then built early smartphone companies worth billions. Here's what I learned from Donna Dubinsky:
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I wish I had this energy
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If you burn the candle at both ends, stop! That is wrong. You are bad at candles
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Such a momentous occasion in exploration!
"Wow!" The @NASAJPL team is all cheers as they receive video data from the @NASAPersevere rover of the Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter flight:
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A family vacation is a trip. Always has been and always will be
A friend told me today that going on vacation with kids as a mom is fundamentally "a work trip" and I can't stop thinking about it
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Miss this fella
Replying to @Latesha_Byrd
12 yr old sweetheart Guinness says hello
Good reminder for all of us in product management - can’t solve everything. Focus on biggest impact and realize sometimes you need to “let it go”. I still need reminders to take this advice.
When I first became a PM, I tried to solve every problem the team was facing. But this was 1) low impact, 2) low leverage. To level up, I used some strategies from Reid Hoffman and Brian Chesky to be more effective with "putting our fires" Let me explain:
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I was really upset that homeless people did not have access to the $1,400 stimulus check. I just found this out. If you are homeless, you can go to a tax return office where they will file something called EIP return. They will put the money on a debit card after. Retweet.!
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