management - Justin Paterno

PM Software and Minimum Viable Process

I'm in the early days co-founding a new company and I've been very focused on early process, culture, and how things get built. While exciting at first over the years, I am now allergic to processes such as Agile and software that serves them. I love the concept of agile

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What I've Learned so far in Product and Management Vol 2

Over the past year I've reflected a bunch on what I've learned, mistakes I've made, and slowly put together a long list of thoughts that I'm going to blog about in chunks. These are mostly about product management but many apply to all management. I published the first volume a

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Post Pandemic Trends: Offices

According to researchers, the current pandemic surge has likely peaked in the US. They certainly could be wrong or we could see a new surge based on some weird variant out of South Africa or West Hartford, but with vaccines starting to get distributed, it's a good bet that the

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The First 100 Days

As Biden gets sworn in today, much of the conversation will now shift to his agenda for the "First 100 Days". The chyron will be on every cable news network and will be the subject of every political podcast. I've always been somewhat cynical of this conversation. I felt it

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What the Best Golfers Know About Execution

Every now and then you come read something or come across an idea that is so obvious and simple that it haunts you. In a good way. I recently got back into golf, after years of dwindling rounds, and as I wrote earlier this year I was shocked by the

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What I've Learned So Far in Product and Management (Vol. 1)

Taking a break during the pandemic gave me plenty of time to clear my head and reflect. Over the past 9 months, I put together a running list of thoughts of things I've learned and/or mistakes I've made. Most of these are related to product management and startups, but

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Write Every Day

It's the first (real) day of the new year, when everyone's resolutions are likely just starting and full of hope. I came across this on Twitter over the weekend which is especially important this time of year: Instead of "learn to code in 2021", code every day. Instead

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Attention to Detail Shock

I played varsity golf in high school and a little bit of club golf at college, but haven't played competitive golf since - nearly 20 years. In fact I haven't played much golf at all since then - each year playing less and less until last year, when I only

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Unburnt Out and Back to work

Back in early March I left Stocktwits after nearly 11 years. My time at Stocktwits was an incredible experience. I joined a few months after the March 2009 bottom and was able to build one of the largest communication platforms for retail investors during one of the largest bull markets