Hey there!

After almost a year in my current role, I’m now looking for new opportunities. Based on the market right now, while there’s the chance of finding something this month, I’m inclined to take August off and start the real search in September, after all, having time to disconnect before a new job is the healthier approach. Luckily, there’s no immediate urgency, I can take some time finding a situation that aligns with my values and ways of working.

The good thing about having more spare time is that I can focus more on what I really want to do during the day. On top of applying for new roles, I’ll keep focusing on my learning goals, writing more consistently, exercise. It would be great to go back to playing guitar, as it’s been abandoned for quite some time.

Last Sunday, I went to see AC/DC live in London for the first time. Amazing experience. I thought I would never see these classic bands live—certainly Pink Floyd, my favourite band ever, is out of the picture—, so this is an achievement. Now I’m hyped and ready to pick up my guitar again. One thing for sure, I’m astonished at how much energy the band have at their age, singing all the classic tunes like the first day. There are days when I cannot even muster half of that energy! I’m getting old.

It was also an interesting experience to get out of Wembley Stadium and seeing the path to Wembley station full of people, and having to wait quite a bit to move a few meters at a time. I imagine the crowd only moves each time a new tube reaches the station.

Interesting links

• “What have we already tried?” is the most powerful product question you can ask (Pavel Samsonov). “‘Build, measure, learn’ doesn’t need to start with ‘build’ when there are already countless outputs to learn from. Stop shoving more outputs through the process in the hope that one of them will make it through, and start widening the bottleneck.”

• Are You Doing Product Management or Bullshit Management? (David Pereira)

• How the team sets its own salaries at OCF (Alanna Irving)