As lots of us are working from home (my whole company is remote right now) during this time of social distancing, staying connected with each other becomes even more important. If you’re thinking of ways to connect with your team here’s an idea we’ve been trying out for the past few days that everyone found fun and engaging. Emoji lunch descriptions The idea is simple: At 1PM everyone on team describes their lunch through emojis on our team group chat. People can be as direct or indirect as they want. Others guess and fun conversations happen. ...

Most of us have either heard of or used A/B testing which is a widely employed technique across industries from medicine to software development to measure one version of the product against the other. It’s a method to validate if your beliefs about a new feature or an improvement are actually true and if so to what extent. The reason I’m writing this is two-fold — to collect information about the statistics and math behind the process in one place and also solidify my own understanding of these concepts. I am by no means a statistics, probability or math expert so happy to hear feedback or corrections. ...

Often times during interviews and social conversations I get asked by people what a day in the life of a Product Manager looks like. The first time someone asked me that I was actually taken aback on how difficult it was to answer that question. Any given Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday is different from the day before and the Thursday will be very different. Perhaps it’s the very nature of being at a startup but the variability in the type of work is what personally excites me. ...