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“I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.” — Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Make yourself cozy. Pull up a (utilitarian) chair. Have a refreshing glass of water.

This is an every-few-week letter for product builders. We’ll talk about product & design, leadership & team, and the way we grow and evolve.

Who am I? I started building products as employee ~100 at Facebook and went on to head up product design for the FB app for many years. I’ve kept this blog about design, technology and leadership for a good chunk of that time. I wrote a bestselling leadership book called The Making of a Manager in 2019. Currently, I am living the entrepreneurial journey with my start-up Sundial whose mission is to help teams make faster, smarter decisions with data.

Who am I writing for? Those of you who know me well know that secretly, all my writings are letters to myself. It’s the stuff I need to hear. But, if you are like me—someone who loves building products; someone who is a designer/engineer/pm/data scientist/researcher/analyst; someone who obsesses about working with others; someone who’d like to better understand herself—then maybe you will enjoy reading this too.

The journey is the destination, and we’ve got a lot of ways to travel yet.