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27 Jun 2022 Lenny's Podcast Brandon Chu on building product at Shopify, how writing changed the trajectory of his career, the habits that make you a great PM, pros and cons of being a platform PM, how Shopify got through Covid
“I think you're a machine, but for me, it was like, I would put one every couple months maximum or something like that.”
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- 27 Jun 2022
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…That's a really good point. You should not be focused on this needs to go viral for this to be worth the time because I find that the more you think about that, the less well it does because that becomes the wrong intent. Yeah. Well, to be perfectly transparent about it, it is a factor in why I stopped writing. It had gained so much traction and I had become an exec now at Shopify and I was so busy at them. I was like, "I don't have the time to make this thing as good as it was. And I'm not even going to put another post out because I don't want to disappoint people." That's a real thing. I think you're probably better conditioned with this having written 300 posts now. I think you're a machine, but for me, it was like, I would put one every couple months maximum or something like that. And so when I lost the time, I had kids and all these types of things, it seemed insurmountable to prioritize. I wanted to ask, what's your favorite thing that you've written? Which piece is your favorite?…
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