What Six Drafts of a Five-Minute Story Taught Me
Six drafts of a five-minute story helped me practice choosing what matters, sharing my perspective, and giving people enough context to understand.
Six drafts of a five-minute story helped me practice choosing what matters, sharing my perspective, and giving people enough context to understand.
My takeaways from Women In Product 2026: what happened after teams built fast, how leaders are handling the pressure, and practical ways to question assumptions, examine defaults, and communicate change.
Improv helped me notice when I was planning my response instead of listening, or inviting collaboration while holding onto my own answer. I brought those lessons to a Women In Product workshop, with three games you can try with your team.
An AI issue summary can sound convincing while overstating the evidence. Here are the checks I built in for affected users, overlapping sources, missing information, and uncertain conclusions.
Claude built my first application change quickly—and put it in the wrong place. Three support links taught me about checking the result, helping reviewers, and confirming a change is live.
An injury two weeks into marathon training changed how I thought about plans and progress. Those lessons followed me back to product work, alongside a reminder that support matters.
What MTPCon London taught me about quality, specialist expertise, financial impact, and accountability as AI makes building faster—and why product work should still be enjoyable.
My takeaways from ProductCon New York: context, product judgment, PMs as builders, shared understanding, and the values that need to guide what we ship.
Written requirements asked users to picture the finished tool. Familiar, clickable prototypes helped them give more specific feedback while we still had room to change the design.
Our product reviews didn’t require elaborate pre-reads, but I kept making them. Building a different preparation workflow helped me question what I actually needed to bring to the conversation.