Re:Show HN: Best and free resources to learn product management
by jacques_chester on Sunday August 23, 2015 @08:10AM
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> Also when you refer to engineers and designers as being "yours," this is a huge red flag.
I think you're reading too much into a common shorthand for "engineers who I work with".
People also say "my friends", "my family", "my workmates", "my boss", "my bus driver", "my doctor" and so on without implying subordination.
Re:Show HN: Best and free resources to learn product management
by mistermann on Sunday August 23, 2015 @02:29AM
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> when you say you "get into the weeds" on technical tradeoffs, it's quite likely that you're wasting the engineers' time trying to debate things that are either utterly inconsequential or are obviously wrong to anyone with a basic grasp of the technology.
Could you offer some additional insight on why you think that way?
Also when you refer to engineers and designers as being "yours," this is a huge red flag. They are not your subordinates--at least not in any company that's worth working for. You would do yourself well not to think of them as such.