No, not quite quitting work to get back to writing (almost, but not quite 😉). I do feel I’m getting there — now that I have a study with a lock on the door — and will be restarting a writing habit soon, but that isn’t the subject of today’s post.

I’ve written before about the cross-over of creative writing and my job in product management (and it’s generally applicable to much of corporate work). There is some transference back in the sense that publishing is a business, though I find the digital platforms I build very different from managing creative writing and books.

Anyway, at the beginning of the year I wrote a couple of columns using such techniques for Mind The Product. Turns out that my posts on soft skills and turning feature factories into gardens were some of the top posts for them when published.

I had the chance to speak with their podcast hosts Lilly Smith and Randy Silver about storytelling, about a new way to think about product management, and how using metaphors can change mental models as the underpinning of a cultural shift. Well, that and being subversive 😉

If you’re curious, you can listen to me speak for half an hour about gardening as an analogy for modern product management on The Product Experience website, Spotify, or the platform of your choice. If you do listen, I’d love to hear what you thought! Did you find this useful? Any insights, or similar experiences?

https://www.mindtheproduct.com/how-to-turn-factories-into-gardens-assaph-mehr-on-the-product-experience/