This is career anarchy

The absolute most hilarious thing about my solopreneur journey is how I made a WHOLE GIANT DEAL about "LEAVING THE PRODUCT INDUSTRY" lolol.

I never LEFT. I just do BETTER product work on my own, unencumbered with bad managers, volatile strategy, crappy incentives, and emotionally incompetent colleagues.

It sure FELT like I was "leaving" something. I definitely had to grieve the professional I thought I was becoming--that high-octane, shiny featured, "delivered at scale" kind of gunner PM. But it was never me. It always felt wrong.

On the other side of grief was a level of greatness and pleasure I never thought was possible. (interleaved, of course, with the kind of personal growth challenges you can't run from when you work for yourself... phew!).

Product looks different at every org. At mine, it looks like everything I enjoy about product, and nothing I don't.

This is career anarchy.