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Building a Product Design career
Paul Otu on what it took to build a product design career — the work that compounded, and the work that only looked like progress.
A weekly podcast · New episode every Tuesday
Every craft a product needs
An exposé into the behind-the-scenes of building careers, and of building products that improve lives. It is not a product management show — the room holds the counsel who cleared the licence as readily as the engineer who shipped it.
Most product content is a highlight reel, written after the fact by someone at a company nobody here works at. This trades polish for receipts, and proximity for distance.
It is for anyone whose work ends up inside a product — the PM, the engineer, the designer, the counsel, the marketer, the analyst. Careers get built at the seams between crafts, so the episodes happen there too.
Latest · Episode 3 · TUE 30 AUG 2022
Data-driven Product Development process
How data actually influences product development — where the numbers decide something, and where they only decorate a decision already made.
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ArchivedMy career journey as a Product Manager
Three product managers working in Nigerian fintech walk through how they got in, and what the first years actually asked of them.
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Careers get built at the seams between crafts, so the episodes happen there too. Every craft carries the same weight here.
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Every episode gets a permanent page with notes, guests and craft tags — so the back catalogue is browsable by the thing you actually came for.
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