Product managers spend their days thinking about customers, stakeholders, and growth curves. Few apply that same discipline to their own careers.
In this episode of How I PM, Patrick Hoffman, building products at Meta, shares how treating your career as a product can lead to better decisions and faster growth.
Patrick’s Career-as-a-Product Framework
- Identify Your Investors
Understand who is invested in your success and how they measure progress. - Maximize Learning
Optimize for how much you learn relative to the effort you put in. - Evaluate the Growth Curve
Choose roles and teams that move your career in the right direction over time.
“Always be learning. Maximize how much you can learn for the amount of investment you’re putting in.” – Patrick Hoffman
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