Letter #3: #ShortRead : Structuring your thoughts: for Product managers
Structuring your thought process and ideas can help you focus your energy and prevent you from getting overwhelmed
This is something I had posted on my Blog some time back. If you are a visitor of my blog(thank you for that), this would be a repetition for you
In product management, and In general one powerful weapon in your kitty is the ability to organise ideas and features in a logical structure. It helps you think better and in a more focussed way
These structures can be industry specific or domain specific. Here I present one:
My favourite structure, the one I use a lot, is the flow of information. It has 3 parts
Creation
Curation
Consumption
You can fit hundreds of things into these buckets
Eg : You are at Twitter and you want to improve Twitter
Think creation
how to get more people to tweet
how to get people to tweet more
more ways to tweet
what apart from tweets
Think curation
hashtags
lists
personalisation
follow
organize in replies and threads
curated bookmarked tweets
trending
add metadata to tweets -og tags
Think consumption
how to view threads
different devices and surfaces
read me tweets
api integrations to send tweets to external providers
surface og tags,images etc
tell me why am I seeing this
Sounds pretty simple, because it is. Breaking down into simple structures can help you focus your attention and prevent you from getting overwhelmed