14 posts
7 minutes read15 Nov 2025
I’ve been debating with my tech lead about the role of qualitative methods, continuous discovery, interviews, observational studies, in generating user insight. In his view: if we already collect vast amounts of data, isn’t it more efficient to analyse what we have rather than spend time talking to users? Quantitative data is more measurable, comparable, and easier to use as evidence. After all,...
3 minutes read28 May 2025
There are moments in life when you hit slow-burn-max mode, when you know a big decision is coming, and you can feel the weight of it. You stop everything else and think deeply about the problem you're about to face. Jeff Bezos calls these “one-way doors.” Most decisions are two-way doors, you can go through, try it out, and walk back if it doesn’t work. But some aren’t like that. They’re...
2 minutes read24 May 2025
Some blockbuster software products should just end the cycle of endless iteration. The conversation around product development needs to take seriously the idea of “finished” software, alongside the more common belief that “software is never perfect and always needs improvement.” These are two different schools of thought and have a lot of friction to coexist with each other. I lean toward the...
4 minutes read07 Apr 2025
In some product-related decisions, we deal especially with the problem of incentives. In a more crude way, we can treat incentive problems as either zero-sum games, or positive-sum games. I thought that was a great framing, and went on with my worldview, and my life, and my regular product-work, until I found a better framing, a better explanation! I've dived into game theory more recently, and...
9 minutes read06 Dec 2024
Showing proof-of-work as a designer is quite simple. You made an app, you communicated the output product and exhibit how the product evolved over time ranging from the paper napkin sketch, low fidelity, high fidelity prototypes and finally a fully fledged product. The iterations need not just be tangible, but can be verbal too. Similarly, for an engineer the proof of work is also quite solid....
2 minutes read06 Dec 2024
In the book Inspired, Marty Cagan talks about dividing one's day-to-day tasks into three major buckets: people, process and product. I'd experimented with categorising my tasks into similar such buckets based on the framework by Shreyas Doshi. To make this possible within my workflow, I started colour-coding my calendar for weekly time-management. High leverage tasks are indicated with red color...
11 minutes read17 Aug 2024
When you actively hold a question in your mind, you start seeing potential answers and questions related to it pop up in your radar. The question and the answer co-evolve in a gracious dance enriching our understanding of the world and space around us. Questions act as your personal radar. > The textbook definition of a question is a sentence used to seek information. But it feels borderline...
3 minutes read29 Jul 2024
When it comes to building a product, everything is a prioritisation problem. > We might be building things right, but are we building the right thing? The journey of prioritisation begins way before the actual process of prioritisation starts. I would start by asking these key questions to the product leadership team—What does the future state look like? — Vision. What are we trying to achieve? —...
5 minutes read13 Jul 2024
Product roasts are the best way to enhance one's sensibility around building better products. It's called a "roast" because it often involves a no-holds-barred, brutally honest critique of the product's features, design, user experience, and overall value proposition. In the spirit of 'everything is a remix', I've liberally forked, remixed and adapted a set of questions from industry leaders like...
3 minutes read18 Jun 2024
I recently transitioned from leading a product team in a region to a more centralised role overseeing products across multiple geographies. As part of that transition, I needed to onboard the new product lead of that region, ensuring they were fully briefed While a virtual onboarding could have covered the basic documents and data points, I knew an in-person handoff was crucial. Slide decks can...
2 minutes read15 Jun 2024
If you think most product managers spend time in meetings, you're mistaken. The larger chunk of a PM's time is spent in preparation for those meetings - having the "meetings before the meeting", "the meeting", and the "meetings after the meeting." Image courtesy: Marketoonist.com In fact, for most one-way door decisions (decisions that are big and hard to reverse), the pre-meeting phase is quite...
3 minutes read02 Jan 2024
We might have to rethink on the definition of the 'Minimum Viable Prototype'. Especially since the bar for what's viable keeps rising up, with the likes of Gumroad, etc being built in a weekend. Notion, Figma, Airtable, Superhuman and Discord with their extremly high quality user experience has led to a highly devoted user base among tech Twitter. It would be foolish to think of the MVP of Notion...
3 minutes read27 Dec 2023
Design methods are life jackets. Not straight jackets. Structures, whether they're processes, frameworks, or plans, are excellent tools to navigate complicated problems. They bring efficiency, reduce ambiguity, and offer defaults. However, when dealing with fundamentally complex problems, applying structure too early can lock in outdated notions. Because structures tend to ossify. As more team...
4 minutes read15 Aug 2023
As a product manager who also pitches in as a service designer at Noora Health, i sometimes do wonder how I could use most of the design methods I'm applying at my day job for myself. Let's take the methodology of Service Design Blueprinting for example. It involves outlining the front stage and back stage elements of all the actors involved in a system to make it lead to the intended action. For...