Skills beat knowledge - practice until it's in your bones

This is a skill and skill is knowledge times practice mediated by your environment, the habits you form and the motivation that you have.

My advice to people is go get a job which will make you the fastest learner in the field of product management. That is what will help you a lot. No course, no degree, none of those things will help.

Don't stop being a hands-on technical until you feel like it's in your bones. You feel like you've got mastery that you could... if I was to pick it up, it would be rusty, but I would get there pretty quickly.

Sometimes I tell the PM like, 'Hey, don't just show me the one you just did. When are you going to do your next strategy? Can I join you then? I just want to sit and watch you write down the outline and just understand your thought process.'

My approach is typically I'll say, 'I'm giving myself three months, six months.' Every week, I'm going to do something related to learning strategy. And I do that for six months. You do it enough that you get over the hump and then actually develop the skill.

A lot of learning happens through the iterations and not by seeing the final product. That's the benefit you also get at a company that has great product management.

For the EQ stuff, it was the most frustrating learning for me. For the IQ stuff, within six months, sometimes three months, I can see clear progress. But then with the EQ stuff, it's things I've been working on for years.