
#465: Five Pillars of Product Management with Will Cole
About this episode
Marty sits down with Will Cole to discuss his new writing on the five invariant elements of product management and how to build an effective strategy for your company.
Will on Twitter: https://twitter.com/willcole
0:00 - Intro
6:17 - Marty is sleepy
11:07 - Stories behind Will’s writing
19:10 - Invariants and levels of abstraction
30:25 - Why a product manager exists
33:57 - Think, then do
36:30 - Running through the invariants and strategy doc
42:41 - Timeline
46:55 - Minimizing meetings with good writing
48:53 - Iterating vs incrementing
56:44 - Who has better and worse product management?
1:00:24 - Managing growth
1:08:48 - Cmon Marty write the doc
1:12:46 - Design patterns
1:16:41 - BIPs
1:22:15 - Staying on the cutting edge
1:24:25 - Come and PM for Bitcoin companies
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