Career Lessons Data Science Product Management
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PM-ing My Life: Friendships
My strategy doc for finding friends. I should probably be working on the strategy doc for work, but this is more fun. I recently moved from the Bay Area to NYC, which means I’ve left the people I’ve grown close to over the past three years. Now that I’m a 6-hour flight from the friends…
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The Tech Industry in the Current Economic Environment
by ChatGPT I’ve been playing around with ChatGPT since it launched a while back. Today, I decided to provide the prompt “Write a blog post about the tech industry in the current economic environment”, and here’s the results. The tech industry has long been a beacon of growth and stability, even in times of economic…
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Being Young
I turned 25 a few weeks ago. For the longest time, I was dreading getting to this age because I felt a lot of pressure to have things figured out by then. Come this year, my mindset shifted and I couldn’t wait to get past this age. One reason is that I didn’t want to…
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Moments That Altered My Brain Chemistry as a PM
At the beginning of this year, I became the PM of a brand new team. Two months in, one of my good friends at work said to me, “Rachel, you’re doing a good job. But for you and your team to really shine, you know shit has to hit the fan, right?” While I didn’t…
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tl;dr of the PM Role
I have friends ask me why I have so many meetings. I’ve spoken to people who think that because my title is “Product Manager”, I got a promotion and now manage people. Since there seems to be lots of questions and misconceptions about this role, I’ve decided to write up a tl;dr of it. A…
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Career Lessons: Part 2
This is Part 2 of my Career Lessons Series, a collection of blog posts updated once a year as I hit another work anniversary (check out Part 1 here). The purpose of this series is for me to look back on how I’ve changed with each year spent in the workforce. I recently hit my…
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My First 90 Days as a Product Manager
It’s been 3 months since I officially started my new role, but it feels like I’ve been a Product Manager (PM) for a lot longer. In the first 90 days, I had a stakeholder change requirements the week before launch, dealt with a feature receiving internal backlash, caused a SEV… My manager joked that we…
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Why I Left The Data Science Realm
In my previous post Why and How I Transitioned from Data Science to Product Management, I mentioned how after about a year in the workforce, the reservations I had about the product data science role were impacting my morale at work. I didn’t elaborate on what these reservations were because I felt that they deserved…
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