Great product managers apply product thinking everywhere. Including their own careers.

In this How I PM episode, Patrick Hoffman, building products at Meta, shares a powerful mental model: treat yourself and your career as a product.

Patrick explains how thinking this way changes how you make decisions about roles, teams, and what to work on next.

This approach helps you:

1. Identify your investors, customers, and stakeholders

2. Evaluate whether your career is on the right growth curve

3. Decide which opportunities are worth the investment

4. Maximize learning for the time and effort you put in

“Always be learning. Maximize how much you can learn for the amount of investment you’re putting in.” – Patrick Hoffman

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