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  • Transform Your Product Skills: Review of Shreyas Doshi’s Course

    This weekend, I completed Shreyas Doshi’s Improving Your Product Sense course, and I absolutely loved it. It was a transformative experience that I recommend to anyone involved in building, managing, or leading technology products. And if you’re a PM, senior leader, or someone who frequently wears a PM hat, this course is invaluable.

    I’ve been following Shreyas’ content on Twitter for some time now, and I knew about the course; however, not being a Product Manager myself I still wasn’t sure this course would be for me. Luckily, my former manager had just completed the previous cohort and told me wonders about it. I’m a Engineering Manager of a product team and many times I have to wear a PM hat, so investing in these skills makes a lot of sense to me.

    It’s true that the course is expensive, but if you’re in a senior leadership position this is probably one of the best investments you can make in your career. It’s also true that the course is extremely intense, and the logistics can be challenging if you’re in an European or Asian time zone. But it is absolutely worth it every minute and the extra effort.

    The content is something I haven’t seen anywhere else and it’s evident that Shreyas has spent a tremendous amount of time refining it. Don’t expect easy steps, templates, or feel good frameworks that everyone else knows about. Instead, you’ll leave with the correct mindset to improve your product sense through first principles. This course is essentially a course to improve your clarity of thinking in disguise, which is invaluable beyond product development.

    Yes, there is a Fight Club vibe in this post, as I’m intentionally not sharing any course summary. And yes, it would be better for me if no one else took this course so that I could keep the unfair advantage to myself. But, I know most people don’t care about this stuff. Most people either think they know it all and don’t need this course, or they think they care about improving their skills but they really don’t.

    If you’re curious about the course or how it might apply to your role, feel free to ask me!