Product and Technology enthusiast
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My Day in Three for today:
1. I wrote my annual ‘Thank You Notes’ for each of my team members.
2. My team and I had a good conversation about what ‘Product-Led’ culture means. We are already in a good place, but there is always room for improvement.
3. Taxi driving for my son and his girlfriend after a long day of work. It’s time for him to get his driver’s license.
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My Day in Three for today:
1. One of my peers said today: “You can’t influence others if you can’t be influenced yourself”. It made me think.
2. I joined the 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge with the [Micro.blog community](https://challenges.micro.blog/). I’m going to do my best to keep the streak going.
3. I installed and tested the latest version of [Tapestry.app](https://usetapestry.com/). The new theme is great. I really like how much smoother different feeds blend together now.
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Play around with Learn Binary if you have a few minutes to spare.
Binary numbers can seem complex and weird, but they’re actually not that hard to understand. You can learn how to read binary numbers and count in binary in just a couple of minutes, which is a pretty cool skill to have.
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My Day in Three for today:
1. I’m dealing with something I call ‘December fatigue’. I don’t enjoy the long, dark days and miss the sunlight, which makes me feel tired.
2. I had some good laughs at the office, and some colleagues were laughing at me because of my grumpiness in the morning (see 1).
3. I spent the evening thinking about the Product Manager skills I find important and how I see these skills evolving in the near future due to the introduction of agentic tools. I’ve drafted a blog post about five of them, which I will post here later.
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I’m going to try a new reflection method over the next 30 days. I’ll call it My Day in Three ([MDiT](https://schoonens.social/categories/mdit/)). Here’s the first one, because why wait until January 1st for a New Year’s resolution?
1. I got up early today to have breakfast with my youngest, who had to leave the house for sports at 8:30 in the morning.
2. I had brunch with three of my longest-standing friends (from the mid-nineties). We had a good catch-up about life, work, and friendship.
3. My wife and I finished packing for our upcoming ski holiday.