Product leadership, AI practice, management notes.
Essays and field notes by Piotr Durlej on building useful products, working with intelligent tools and staying effective inside complex systems.
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Excitement – best guide during recruitment
If you can’t decide always choose a more excited candidate. You can learn or improve skills, but you can’t learn to be excited about the job. For me, this emotional state is an indicator of a great fit between your offer and…
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Companies should not rely on heroes
I see a lot of companies competing for top talent, and thinking about it as the silver bullet for their growth. It is a romantic vision promoted by histories of startup founders. Relying on recruiting top people as a key for the…
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Building remote relationships
I have a fantastic opportunity to work with San Francisco startup as a lead manager for the whole software development team located in Warsaw, Poland. During the last 17 months. I was able to create a great working (and not only) relationship…
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Management debt
Technical debt is a popular term in software development. However, after my endeavours with tech startups and software houses, I experienced another set of problems which can hinder organisations, possibly more impactful than technical debt – a lack of proper strategic management…
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Cold tweeting success example
Blocks, smartwatch that had been on Kickstarter used cold tweets like you can see on adam_blocks, patrickblocks or TonyBlocks to gather $1,613,874, Well played!