Mastering Productivity: Insights for PMs and Beyond | Bijan Shahrokhi (Founder, Product Monkey AI)
Description
Bijan Shahrokhi is Creator of PM Exercises and Product Monkey AI. He is a product management executive with 10+ years of experience in building disruptive technologies. He was previously Head of Product at O(1)Labs, working on Mina Protocol, the world’s lightest blockchain, an L1 project.
In today's episode:
• The key pillars of productivity
• How to be more productive in our lives (for PMs and everybody)
• Emerging productivity tools
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Bijan's contact and company info:
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/bijan_sha
• Product Monkey AI: https://productmonkey.ai/
• PM Exercises: https://www.productmanagementexercises.com/
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Where to find the host, Adam Wakeling:
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamjwakeling
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-wakeling-26494b35/
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In this episode, we cover:
(00:00 ) Introduction
(02:32 ) Bijan's view of productivity as a concept
(04:18 ) Where to start with being more productive
(09:53 ) The next steps
(12:34 ) Discussion around prioritisation
(17:50 ) Differentiation between team and individual productivity
(19:22 ) Tactics and The 5AM Club
(25:18 ) Using mini milestones
(26:30 ) Importance of exercise
(30:50 ) Tactics around improving knowledge
(31:46 ) Using generative AI for productivity
(34:02 ) Bijan's story in founding PM Exercises and Product Monkey AI
(40:54 ) The tension between productivity and redundancy
(43:48 ) Privacy and security around AI
(48:28 ) Emerging productivity tools
(50:48 ) Final thoughts from Bijan
(52:03 ) Outro
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