Building a product is like raising a baby (not that I know too much about that), but they say it takes a village. The best products aren’t born from a single brain, they’re shaped by a village. With product building, it’s easy to treat every piece of feedback like a judgment on your own skill. A few years back, if I didn’t have the perfect answer or idea, I’d beat myself up. If I got feedback on the product, I'd question my instincts. I can be very hard on myself. I thought being a good product leader meant being the smartest person in the room.
But over time, I realized how limiting that mindset was, and how important that village really is. Teammates who poke holes in your thinking. Customers who point out what’s not working. Leaders who challenge your instincts. When you stop taking it personally, when you let go of the ego and lean into the chaos, you realize that all that input is what helps your baby grow up stronger, more resilient, better equipped to survive the real world. And that's all you want at the end of the day.
There's a lesson in here somewhere and it's probably - be just attached enough to care deeply about building something great, but detached enough to know you don’t have to carry it alone.
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