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📚 4 Books for Me This Fall
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🎒 My Back to School Survival Guide
“In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and…
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🎂 Celebrating 19 Years at Microsoft with 19 Lessons
A note to my younger self about my product building journey
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💎 Hidden Gems for PM's Inside Taylor Swift Lyrics
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💎 Advancing from Product Manager to Product Leader
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🎂 Celebrating 17 years at Microsoft
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Burnout & Boredom: A Manager’s Pandemic Retrospective on Mental Health
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🔦 How You Can Find Learning Opportunities Everywhere
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Work Travel and Mom Guilt
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How I Advocate for My People
Supporting my teams, kids, family and friends in tough moments
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Helen H.
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⚒️ Community, Resilency, and Purpose: Themes from My Product Making Career
What I've learned to value in a product culture
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24 for 2024 Progress Check In
👋🏻 Helen here with an update on my goals for 2024 since we are about halfway through the year.
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Helen H.
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🏊🏻‍♀️ Novice Swim Mom Retrospective
Why swim is right for our family and how to get on a swim team
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Helen H.
⛰️+ ☀️ Enjoying the Mountains East of Seattle
A guidebook to a classic PNW summer weekend
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🏆 Helen's Sabbatical Beginnings - FAQ
First two weeks of time off - themes, questions, and content recs
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Helen H.
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🕵️ Developing an Eye for High Craft Product Making
How to raise the bar as a PM on a UX team
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Mind the Beet
Mind the Beet
Two working parents (both product leaders in tech) discuss our journey with career, parenting, and life. We publish every Sunday. Subscribing is free.
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