Last weekend myself and Madhuri kickstarted our Ai Products Leadership (AiPL) journey 🚀
Honestly we didn’t know where to start, what to learn, how to structure, whom to work with etc. It was/is a blank slate. But we want to be super mindful of what we write on it.
I remembered a book I read in 2016 (Simple Rules by Kathleen Eisenhardt) that changed me inside out. Inspired by the big ideas in the book, we decided to set some simple rules for our composite and complex learning journey.
Here is what we set for ourselves. Steal if it resonates with you:
We will spend focused time (4 hours) to learn on weekends and no learning meetings in the weekdays.
We will spend diffused time in the weekdays to collect and connect dots. No intense learning.
We will use the timeless first principles and apply on the timely learning blocks. This way we will not fall prey to the shiny object syndrome.
We will ingest big ideas using books, podcasts, blogs, newsletters, courses, linchpins, trend reports and digest the big ideas by product tear downs, audits, reviews. Finally express our understanding of big ideas by building tiny products, lectures, white papers and more. All learning blocks will have all three phases of ingestion, digestion and expression (excretion also 😜).
We will over-use Feynman technique as our go to learning method. We learn better when we teach.
The more we give, the more we get. We will include everyone and open up our lectures, white papers, learnings and reflections to the public. We want to set out systems in such a way that we are not slowed down or distracted by this inclusion.
We will use questinathons as our go to method for wielding our curiosity.
We will learn in bi-weekly sprints only. If we can’t break down monoliths into sprints, we don’t understand what we are doing.
We will compound our learning journey and build on top of what we already know. We will start from where we are. It is tailored curriculum so there are no set rules.
We will setup our learning portfolio (in Notion) and open it to public so that everyone can learn from our journeys, processes , methods, mistakes and wins.
Putting this together helped in setting up the ground. Sounds like an exciting journey 🎈
