What Playing Games Taught Me About Being a Better Product Manager
I've been a gamer my whole life. And for a long time, I kept it completely separate from my work as a Product Manager. Then I started noticing something, every time I opened Mobile Legends, I was unconsciously doing product analysis. Turns out, the habits that make someone a great player are exactly the habits that make someone a great PM.
Why I stopped asking "what do users want?"
Early in my career, I thought user research meant asking users what they wanted. I would sit across from someone, such as a teacher, a student, and ask some version of the same question: "What would make this better?" They would answer. I would build it. Sometimes it worked. Often it didn't. It took me years to understand why.