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Community Wisdom: Hours worked per day, finding cool swag, checking in on engineering progress, feeling too much pressure, newsletters about data, and top finds this week

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Community Wisdom: Hours worked per day, finding cool swag, checking in on engineering progress, feeling too much pressure, newsletters about data, and top finds this week

Issue 46

Kiyani
Aug 6, 2021
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Community Wisdom: Hours worked per day, finding cool swag, checking in on engineering progress, feeling too much pressure, newsletters about data, and top finds this week

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👋 Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of ✨ Community Wisdom ✨ — a subscriber-only email delivered every Friday morning highlighting some of the most helpful conversations from our private Slack community. As always, a b​i​g thank you to Kiyani for curating.

💥 Top threads this week

1. How many hours a day do you work

Q: PMs, I'd like to know how many hours you work on average?

Why I'm asking that: Much has been said that being a PM it’s pretty intense job, which it is. But I find myself thinking of many creative ideas when I “out of work”. But this comes with a drawback: I'm constantly thinking about the company/product which sometimes leads to a bad sleep.

I do good things like exercising, meditation but I'd like to know how intense you are working.

It seems to me that working long hours can be a standard for many companies, but it's killing our family time , which for me, it's super important. 💬

Charles: I work anywhere from 6-9 hours a day. I focus on impact and not “How long I sta…

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