🎾 Land Your Dream Job, Easy Goal Practice, Speak Your User's Language in 15 Mins

+ Boost Meetings and Task Flow in under 15 Minutes, and more

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This is Sunday 1-1-2-3 with George.

Welcome to the 101st edition.

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🆕 In today’s edition:

⚡️ 3 actionable steps you can take tomorrow to forward your product & career

📝 The Reverse Interview: Tricks To Find Your Dream Job Now

🎙️ Learn 6 Tips for Using Color Theory at Work in Just 7 Minutes

+ thought provoking question & quote

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🛠️ 3 Actionable Tasks [Less Than 30 Minutes Each]

Goal Practice For Better Product Sense

• Open a new Google doc or your note-taking tool.

• Quickly choose a product that is not directly related to your current work. (You can use your note-taking tool as a product, if you’re stuck.)

• Write down all potential goals of this product, considering various stakeholders: the company, the customers, and third parties. Write, don’t edit.

• Reflect on the creators and users of the product. Note any additional goals based on their perspectives.

• Review the product's marketing materials and add any new goals you infer.

Spend about 10 minutes on this exercise - save it in your calendar to do during a lunch break or at the end of a work day.

Just getting this practice in will get you in the zone for thinking about products in terms of the goals they have, the directional vectors they must follow, and the paths they might take.

Review your notes (after you’ve done it 5-10 times) & reflect on them, especially before you think about the goals for your product.

From “How to Learn Product Sense”