To Be A Product Manager | Day 70
This journal helps me improve 1% every day…
Welcome to Day 70 of
To Be A Product Manager
Instead of finishing all trivial tasks last night, I left them unfinished and went home. But before I took off, I also wrote them down on my sticky notes…
This morning, I’m super productive and follow the task list, get them done one by one. Then I took a step back. Now, I’m fully responsible for 4 products: H5 video player, website, SDK and MVP.
If I chose to go to a big firm, I will never have opportunity to be 100% in charge of these products at the same time, since I just step into product management 4 months ago.
With the help of my mentor and great colleagues around me, I always feel like being pushed forward and challenged, but in a good way.
That’s why I feel lucky and happy joining this startup. Everything is going the way I wanted. 😎
Goals
- H5 feature list updates
- Website
- VR camera reach out
- Z Cam livestreaming
Challenges
As I mention above, I left the some tasks unfinished last night, yet I feel productive and finish them this morning. This reminds me of some effect called:
The Zeigarnik Effect
which states that people remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks.
Although I used to be in favor of finish today’s task today and don’t leave them for tomorrow. But I believe there’s a subtle art of leaving a task unfinished.
When you don’t feel like doing the task right now, or when you are going good on certain things. Stop there, and take notes of what you’ve come up so far, and what’s your next plan.
In this way, the gap not only helps you be creative and thorough on cognitive level, but also boost your productivity when you come back.
However, be careful follow this scientific research, and don’t blur the lines of leaving tasks unfinished with procrastination.
My name is Zake Zhang, a newbie VR product manager based in Shenzhen, China. I’m thinking what if I write daily product journal for 1,000 days?
Thanks for reading and let’s keep on hacking!
Warm Regards,
Zake
be so good they can’t ignore you.
