🎾 Unraveling Rare Memos, Coinbase Product Secrets, Promotion Tips, and a Meme to Brighten Your Day

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This is Sunday 1-1-2-3 with George.

Welcome to the 72nd edition.

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Today we have:

• Rare Memos From the Inside

• Product Stacks - Product Manager at Coinbase

• 1:1s to Make Your Boss Take Notice and Get That Promotion

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📚 Rare Memos From the Inside

I was very surprised to see my tweet about the memo to a PM from the Coinbase CEO do as well as at did:

George from 🕹prodmgmt.world @nurijanian

The Coinbase CEO once sent a great email to a new PM. Here are some of my favorite quotes on what it means to be a Product Manager:

The original memo came from a list of memos I found on Sriram Krishnan’s website.

He collected some rare ones, and you should check them out, because you probably should write more and better memos anyway:

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👀 Product Stacks - Product Manager at Coinbase

Speaking of Coinbase PMs, I found this video from the great Department of Product (great newsletter btw, even if I’m probably competing with them).

Some key takeaways:

• Coinbase uses a PPS (Problem and Proposed Solution) document for quick decision-making on issues that don't require executive approval, providing a lightweight way to get cross-functional alignment.

• For more complex, strategic decisions, Coinbase uses a RAPID framework (Recommend, Agree, Perform, Input, Decide) to involve a larger group of stakeholders and ensure a thorough evaluation of options and trade-offs.

• Customer feedback and user research are crucial for product development at Coinbase, utilizing tools like user testing, customer surveys, and social media monitoring to gather both qualitative and quantitative data to inform product improvements.

  Check it out:

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🍪 Quick Bites

Use 1:1s to Make Your Boss Take Notice and Get That Promotion

Jack Appleby @jappleby

How to use 1:1s with your boss to position yourself for a raise or promotion 🧵:

Reframe Negotiations with These Proven Strategies from Chris Voss

Prestige☢️ @S0meW0rri3s

@TrungTPhan Mostly techniques for reframing a negotiation as you and your counterparty solving problems together. Also, just taking the time to identify the other party's values/personality/constraints in a non-confrontational way before pushing a particular position.

Why Deep Domain Understanding is the Key to Building Projects That Last

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😂 Meme

Trung Phan @TrungTPhan

Person can’t catch a break

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That's a wrap for today. Stay focused and see you next week! If you want more, be sure to follow me on Twitter (@nurijanian)

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