ARIADNE/WAYFINDING
What has Matt Written about Product Management?
Great Product Managers succeed through kindness, grit, curiosity, and empathy. Matthew Shadbolt outlines key behaviors—from reading the room and embracing ambiguity to crafting the job you want. With user-centered thinking and optimism, PMs can thrive, build trust, and lead with clarity. Above all: work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen. (Read)
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Over the past twenty years, I’ve had the privilege to work with a lot of really great Product Managers. Recently I got to thinking about what it is they do that makes them great. Those consistent behaviors and patterns which separate them from those who thrive and those who struggle to get things done. What follows isn’t exhaustive or any aspiration towards a doctrine, but it is a list of things I know to be true.
Reflecting on life’s worst days can be unexpectedly freeing. Matthew Shadbolt argues that if your worst day is already behind you, the future holds nothing but possibility. By reframing pain as past, and optimism as choice, we release anxiety and rediscover perspective, resilience, and the quiet promise of hope. (Read)
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This may seem like a small thing. It may sound like it’s easier said than done. Both are true. But for me as just one person it’s a really small but highly effective thing I’ve found to really help, especially in times of challenge or stress. Get busy living, or get busy dying. Free yourself of the worst days of your life by realizing that they are exactly that, part of your past not part of your future.