Hi, I'm John.
I’m a product manager living in Chicago, IL.
My Five Minute Journal template for the Supernote Nomad
In 2017, I made a seemingly small purchase that had an outsized impact—the Five Minute Journal1 changed how I experience and reflect on each day. The low time commitment, structured prompts, and emphasis on small wins primes my mind for gratitude.
Please, stop calling people “resources.”
Ken Norton’s blog1, Bring the Donuts, is an excellent source for current and aspiring product managers. The Feb 18, 2021 post, Stay Out of the Wind and Away From the Back offered great advice about “position in the field,” and how it might apply to PM’ing at a big tech company. But it was a footnote in the article that resonated with me most.
Review: HEY.com
HEY is a new email service designed, built, and backed by Basecamp. And whether or not you have a bad relationship with email, HEY offers a fresh perspective on a fixture of everyday life. Here are my first impressions 10 days into the free trial.
Why HEY?
I don’t get a lot of personal email. A high-volume day for me is receiving 20–30 emails. And of those, only 1 or 2 warrant a reply. The Gmail web interface paired with the Simplify extension has done a good job keeping my inbox clean. So why bother with HEY?