Karthi Subbaraman

Project Phoenix Season 2 for me is starting now. Connecting dots backwards, I feel we all should do this once every 5 years. I am starting season two a little later and that is ok. The playbook is the same. Draw a line. Burn the ships. Start afresh on five

You can’t miss the 3-Click rule by Jakob Nielsen if you are in products. Let’s understand the core of clicks so that you can understand where poor Nielsen came from. Users are energy efficient. They don’t like to spend extra energy on things they don’t desire.

There are popular definitions and then there are lived experiences. Here is my take on product management as a lived experience than as a definition. Product managers own the success of the product. In their ownership they strive to keep the probability of product success very high. Success is typically

Giving Feedback is hard. Most managers don’t know how to give feedback. Though their heart is in the right place, their methods suck. The new radical transparency movement is detrimental to our self-esteem. The rigorous, frequent, candid, pervasive and critical feedback is hard on the individual. I learnt this

Generative AI has become an integral part of my daily workflow, especially when it comes to writing. I no longer use search and instead use prompts to find what I need in the flow of work. Here are some of the ways AI has helped me immensely: [Brainstorming] When I&

Where should you write - your personal blog, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, the private pages of Notion, newsletters (Substack, Convertkit, etc.), or elsewhere? This is a question that often arises in our writing club. My answer has evolved over a period of time. After writing 500,000+ words in the past

Finally, I have starting writing my book which i call "Sensibowl" and in the process, I am sharing some nuggets in the publication here. If you are serious about your health and wellbeing especially around obesity, insulin sensitivity, diabetes and more this may help. P.S: You might

Being a mother is the most fulfilling job role on planet earth. It is the only role where having the toughest and unreasonable stakeholders around make it totally worth it. Knowing that it is a thankless and an under appreciated job, we push it hard to do our best every

Musings from a productivity nerds’ diary. In the internet you will find for and against arguments for everything. that is what fascinates me. Productivity world is not immune to this. There are arguments for goals and arguments for anti-goals. There are arguments for to-do list and there are vehement opposition

Wine vs Winery vs Wine Tech is my recent analogy for zeroing in on passion. This happened during my grad school days when I took a Food Anthropology elective. I was/am fascinated by all things Michael Pollen and couldn't stop talking about food, cooking, recipes and cultures.