1. Your job is to deeply understand the problem that your product aims to solve then chase the moving goal of solving every nuance of that problem.
2. Being a product manager is about making compromises between what your team can accomplish within a given period of time and what your customers absolutely need.
3. Those passions I stated during my first product management interview — deeply understanding other humans, removing pain from people’s lives, writing, field-research, finding patterns and trends in data, designing for humans — were exactly what my interviewers were looking for, because that’s what it takes to be a successful PM.
4. Your product is only as good as a user’s perception of it.