Skip to content

Anshumani Ruddra

Understated Hyperbole

Menu
  • About Me
  • Videos and Talks
  • Story Stack
  • Fiction
Search
Posted onApril 8, 2021April 8, 2021Product Management Lessons

Behind the Scenes – Kalaari Podcast

Late last year, I had recorded a podcast with Vani Kola of Kalaari Capital. We discussed many different topics – what make a good PM,…

Read More
Posted onFebruary 12, 2021February 12, 2021Frameworks

Rethinking the Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

The MVP is dead. The Minimum Viable Product philosophy has become corrupted. We have misunderstood its intent and diluted its core elements over the years.…

Read More
Posted onFebruary 9, 2021February 9, 2021Learning

Transitioning into Product Management

To say that I have followed an unconventional path to becoming a product manager is a little bit of an understatement.  Engineering → Writing →…

Read More
Posted onJanuary 4, 2021January 4, 2021Frameworks

Career Choices in the Wisdom Economy

One of the most significant problems that the next generation will have to deal with is one created by extremely long life spans: People who…

Read More
Posted onDecember 8, 2020December 8, 2020Life Lessons

We Are Not Doing OK

Over Sunday brunch I finally admitted to a friend that I was not doing OK. And then he admitted back to me that neither was…

Read More
Posted onDecember 5, 2020December 5, 2020Pop Culture

The Unbearable Lightness of The Undoing

To say that I was stoked about The Undoing is an understatement. David E Kelley is a master storyteller whose work I have been enjoying…

Read More
Posted onNovember 13, 2020November 13, 2020Frameworks

Difficulty Curves in Games – Lessons for Product Builders

A young girl wakes up in a daze.  “Where is everyone?”  She walks out of her room and searches her house. Her family is missing.…

Read More
Posted onJuly 8, 2020July 8, 2020Fiction

The Fire Born

This is the second in a series of character origin stories from the Mahabharat. They never gave her a name.  She was her kingdom’s princess.…

Read More
Posted onJuly 2, 2020July 2, 2020Fiction

The Bird Prince

This is the first in a series of character origin stories from the Mahabharat.  A young prince and his father, the king, are locked up…

Read More
Posted onJune 22, 2020June 22, 2020Learning

38 Lessons over 38 Years

No sudden wisdom has dawned on me. No life-altering epiphanies. Birthdays come and birthdays go. This will be just another day and the start of…

Read More
Posted onApril 23, 2020April 23, 2020Frameworks

Exit Cost in Products

A lot has been written about defensibility and moats in businesses. Strategists talk about barriers to entry (resources, patentable technology and processes, expertise, capital) in…

Read More
Posted onMarch 26, 2020March 27, 2020Frameworks

The Product Managers of the Mahabharat

Over a meeting, someone recently asked me to describe the archetype of a product leader. While I answered the question, a broader thought stayed with…

Read More

Posts navigation

Page 1 Page 2 Next Page
© Copyright 2021 – Anshumani Ruddra
Anther Theme by DesignOrbital ⋅ Powered by WordPress