Why I started ProductizeHR

My journey here. And from here.

I had been writing some articles on Medium and on LinkedIn for a while, and I was really enjoying it. But at the same time, it was just exhausting to think “What am I going to write about this week?“, week after week.

That’s why I decided to start something that had more of a core topic, a common thread that allowed me to organize my thoughts.

The inspiration came from several of my many mentoring sessions with entrepreneurs: several people told me they enjoy how I managed to tell stories that included references and resources, and patterns ported from one field into another, in ways that created new meaning.

That’s why I decided to start bringing my knowledge of Product Management into HR and vice versa, all sprinkled with a little bit of technology and agility.

And this has been fun over the past 3 weeks. But it also has been kind of exhausting, to be honest. Maybe it was because of all the other things that I was doing at the same time, but I started to feel overcommitted, and the quality of my writing suffers when that happens.

So, to be able to continue writing articles that are engaging and that I am proud of, I will try moving to a more conservative schedule of publishing one big article every 2 weeks. The hypothesis is that this will allow me to dig deeper and find more interesting topics to write about, in a way that is more thoughtful and useful for everybody (and more sustainable for me).

I would also like to hear from my audience and learn about what y’all would find interesting for me to write about. I am all ears…

(As exhausting as writing is, generating AI images is so much fun, it’s like pulling the lever of a slot machine, one can never quite know what will come out. For those interested in what tool I am using, it’s Leonardo.ai, which I find to be not quite as accurate as Midjourney, but much with a free version and better than Dall-E. Still, it can produce randomly disturbing stuff, such as this toothed banana, in response to the prompt “A detailed illustration of a banana, watercolor style“. Go figure.)