Product and Technology enthusiast
Play around with Learn Binary if you have a few minutes to spare.
Binary numbers can seem complex and weird, but they’re actually not that hard to understand. You can learn how to read binary numbers and count in binary in just a couple of minutes, which is a pretty cool skill to have.
My Day in Three for today:
1. I’m dealing with something I call ‘December fatigue’. I don’t enjoy the long, dark days and miss the sunlight, which makes me feel tired.
2. I had some good laughs at the office, and some colleagues were laughing at me because of my grumpiness in the morning (see 1).
3. I spent the evening thinking about the Product Manager skills I find important and how I see these skills evolving in the near future due to the introduction of agentic tools. I’ve drafted a blog post about five of them, which I will post here later.
I’m going to try a new reflection method over the next 30 days. I’ll call it My Day in Three ([MDiT](https://schoonens.social/categories/mdit/)). Here’s the first one, because why wait until January 1st for a New Year’s resolution?
1. I got up early today to have breakfast with my youngest, who had to leave the house for sports at 8:30 in the morning.
2. I had brunch with three of my longest-standing friends (from the mid-nineties). We had a good catch-up about life, work, and friendship.
3. My wife and I finished packing for our upcoming ski holiday.
I’ve been listening to this podcast episode with great interest. Tomer Cohen shares some interesting thoughts on how the roles of product manager, product designer, and product engineer will evolve. I like the idea of product pods, which are essentially very small, multiskilled, and multitool teams.
Tomer Cohen is chief product officer at LinkedIn, where he’s pioneering the Full Stack Builder program, a radical new approach to product development that fully embraces what AI makes possible. Under his leadership, LinkedIn has scrapped its traditional Associate Product Manager program and replaced it with an Associate Product Builder program that combines coding, design, and PM skills. He’s also introduced a formal “Full Stack Builder” title and career ladder, enabling anyone, regardless of function, to take products from idea to launch. In this conversation, Tomer explains why product development has become too complex and how LinkedIn is building a product team that can move faster, adapt more quickly, and do more with less.
My Flighty stats for 2025. I really enjoyed connecting with my colleagues around the world. I’m looking forward to meeting more of them next year in China, Japan, and South America.
