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Building Your Personal Brand: The Power of Strategic, Proactive, and Consistent Action - Neeraj Mathur Attending a Board Leadership Academy at Santa Clara University, I learned about the importance of personal branding from Guisselle Nuñez. Key concepts include strategic positioning, proactive engageme...

Build your personal brand with 3 pillars: Strategic positioning (define your unique value), Proactive engagement (create before you feel ready), and Consistency (the compound interest of trust). Your reputation opens doors—manage it intentionally.

neerajmathur.com/2025/10/06/b...

Building Your Personal Brand: The Power of Strategic, Proactive, and Consistent Action - Neeraj Mathur Attending a Board Leadership Academy at Santa Clara University, I learned about the importance of personal branding from Guisselle Nuñez. Key concepts include strategic positioning, proactive engageme...

Build your personal brand with 3 pillars: Strategic positioning (define your unique value), Proactive engagement (create before you feel ready), and Consistency (the compound interest of trust). Your reputation opens doors—manage it intentionally.

neerajmathur.com/2025/10/06/b...

Decades later, we still remember the exact moment when we heard the news.

And if there's one thing we should have learned that day, it is that violence isn't a solution. It is time to reflect as a country and as a society.

To friends, coworkers, acquaintances who we lost that day and since then. 🇺🇸

You guys have been doing a great job for a long time. 🙌🏽👏🏽

@balsamiq.bsky.social is awesome!👏🏽

Prompt engineering is like using a GPS for navigating an AI model.

You define where you want to go (your goal),
provide the right inputs (your prompt and context),
and optimize your phrasing (route)
to ensure the model (navigation system)
takes you there efficiently.

Product Management with AI: Evolving, Not Erasing Product management remains vital despite fears of AI replacing it, as strategic thinking grows in importance. PMs offer valuable skills beyond task management, engaging in market research and team alignment. Embracing AI enhances their capabilities, allowing them to focus on innovation and customer relationships, establishing their role as essential strategic orchestrators.

Product Management with AI: Evolving, Not Erasing

Product management remains vital despite fears of AI replacing it, as strategic thinking grows in importance. PMs offer valuable skills beyond task management, engaging in market research and team alignment. Embracing AI enhances their…

Bridging the Gap: Effective Collaboration Between Product Managers and Engineers Sarah, a product manager, and Jake, a lead engineer, face frustrations due to shifting requirements and communication gaps in tech projects. Their distinct motivations can create tension, but collaboration and understanding are key. Successful teams, like those at Gmail and Toyota, emphasize clear communication, shared goals, and user-centricity to enhance cooperation and product outcomes.

Bridging the Gap: Effective Collaboration Between Product Managers and Engineers

Sarah, a product manager, and Jake, a lead engineer, face frustrations due to shifting requirements and communication gaps in tech projects. Their distinct motivations can create tension, but collaboration and…

Never taking anything for granted comes out clean and clear in the second framing. 🙌🏽

Being process-oriented vs goal-oriented has single-handedly changed how I think about things.

I wish more people believed and executed on it.

Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning Engaging the fine motor system to produce letters by hand has positive effects on learning and memory

www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I recently discovered two excellent articles that are highly relevant to the current trends, especially with the growing interest in "outsourcing" writing tasks.

It's a well-known principle that one should never delegate one's core competencies.

Mercedes-Benz’s new $60,000 luxury sedan lets your boss watch you drive during Microsoft Teams meetings. The video stream won’t be visible to a driver in motion, but they will still be able to use many new Team features on the car’s central display

When I gather up links for my newsletter, I categorize them under a taxonomy of UX sins. But I'm honestly at a loss when it comes to this bullshit, because it ticks so many boxes at once.

It's a little early for a rant, but I hope you'll oblige me.

hahah! I can relate.

Long-form research and writing isn't going anywhere. People will continue to seek expertise, authenticity, and professionals with extensive industry experience.

AI is certainly helping with the research, and possibly with structuring the content. Curious what others think?

Security-First Product Management: Learning from the Tea App Breach The data breach at Tea, a women's dating app, underscores the critical need for a security-first approach in product management. The exposure of 72,000 sensitive user images illustrates the risks of neglecting security. Startups must integrate security from day one to safeguard user data, maintain trust, and avoid regulatory pitfalls.

Security-First Product Management: Learning from the Tea App Breach

The data breach at Tea, a women's dating app, underscores the critical need for a security-first approach in product management. The exposure of 72,000 sensitive user images illustrates the risks of neglecting security. Startups…

Thx for sharing this, Joe. Claude is one of the better ones.

Could you provide more information on the "plan extensively" point?

And for those who think they can deploy whatever is spewed out of those AI tools to Production, I say 'good luck' to your quickly depleting ops teams.

Product Management with AI: Evolving, Not Erasing Product management remains vital despite fears of AI replacing it, as strategic thinking grows in importance. PMs offer valuable skills beyond task management, engaging in market research and team alignment. Embracing AI enhances their capabilities, allowing them to focus on innovation and customer relationships, establishing their role as essential strategic orchestrators.

Product Management with AI: Evolving, Not Erasing

Product management remains vital despite fears of AI replacing it, as strategic thinking grows in importance. PMs offer valuable skills beyond task management, engaging in market research and team alignment. Embracing AI enhances their…

Navigating the Tech Career Ladder: Prioritizing What Matters Many successful middle-aged technologists feel a sense of hollowness despite career achievements. They confront the realization that personal sacrifices for professional success often lead to neglected relationships. Acknowledging this, they can redefine success by prioritizing family, setting boundaries, and intentionally investing in personal connections, ultimately reshaping their lives to balance professional and personal fulfillment.

Navigating the Tech Career Ladder: Prioritizing What Matters

Many successful middle-aged technologists feel a sense of hollowness despite career achievements. They confront the realization that personal sacrifices for professional success often lead to neglected relationships. Acknowledging this,…

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Navigating AI Challenges in FinTech: Bias and Compliance

AI is transforming financial services but poses significant challenges like bias and explainability. AI models can perpetuate discrimination due to…

https://neerajmathur.com/2025/07/16/navigating-ai-challenges-in-fintech-bias-and-compliance/

Happy 4th! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

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Finding Purpose in Grief: A Journey of Self-Discovery

Today marks three years since my father's passing, a seismic change that reshaped my understanding of life and purpose. His absence confronted me with…

https://neerajmathur.com/2025/07/03/finding-purpose-in-grief-a-journey-of-self-discovery/

Image of construction site by a lake in Bengaluru, India.

Running is a constant reminder that sheer will can often break through all reasoning.

You gotta stick with it and put one step in front of the other.

With pleasure. Thx!

This reminds me of the branding effort Sun Microsystems went through a long time ago. After spending couple (?) of millions, the end result was turning the existing logo 45 degrees. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Reset.
Recalibrate.
Restart.

It seems an overwhelming task. And perhaps it is. However, with clarity in thoughts and priorities, it’s one step after another in a given, or chosen, direction.

2025 - here’s to a restart. 🙌🏽

I've been telling everyone how good the Internet infrastructure is in Bengaluru, India. Today, on a Friday evening, the service provider decided to do an update that was wreaking havoc. :(

Jinxed it.

It is crucial to state what we are "NOT" doing explicitly.

The alignment and removal of assumptions enable teams/orgs to move towards good and focused execution.