PMs, how often do u study?
I'm finding myself getting overwhelmed with new concepts/methods/statistics to learn. The fastest i can manage right now is one book a month (~300 pages), and I'm gravitating more towards the more entertaining reads (i.e. that analytics book has been sitting on my desk for 2 months untouched), and I constantly feel like I'm lagging behind other PMs. How do u guys study? Any tips on studying faster but still absorb the materials?
In google, there's two day ML crash course, which I believe is public now, you can take it in workday. You are not that important, nothing will miss if you take one week off.
Read the farnam street blog on reading well.
Go to a relevant conference with good learning tracks or a classroom-style seminar. It costs more to do but pulls you out of the office away from day to day distractions and you can focus better.
Am in same situation as you! I wonder if any PM meetups would of any help!
I've looked for those too! Even just friendly networking events to make new PM friends across diff companies would be nice. As long as the egotistic kinda don't show up
I thought of starting a reading club with a slack group that's invite only. We share and discuss PM articles/blogs/books. Thoughts?
I've found meetups with group deep dives on narrow topics ( not just a general tech Meetup where you eat pizza, add people on LinkedIn and leave) and structured courses at a nearby University are all great ways to keep on top of things.
Csn you give an example of such a meetup?
ProductTO is one example from Toronto, Canada. http://meetu.ps/c/SSDv/NCJF/d on Meetup
Go out and enjoy life instead.
this is why everyone hates PMs
Why the hate everyone's a pawn working for the man