Drew Barontini • Blog

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While meditating, I was struck by a phrase: If you don’t know who you are, you won’t know who you can become.

A lot of people instinctively react negatively.

I’m always experimenting with how I work.

I have a complicated relationship with goals.

Let me process my thoughts.

My youngest son really likes helping me and my wife with tasks.

Throughout my career, I’ve been known for efficiency.

When you're early in product discovery, there's more noise than signal.

How do you know when it’s time to rebuild an old app or just revise it?

When you shape work for a given feature or project, you’re doing it from the perspective of the user—that is, a design perspective.

I had fun doing the recycling.

I have a love-hate relationship with goals.

I want to be surrounded by books.

Wins I launched my new brand and personal site.

Managing a project is easy.

For me, remote work > being in an office.

Here’s how I spark creativity: Get outside and walk.

Leadership and management are distinct forces.

The only way to do great work is being detailed and pushing for the best.

My wife and I started doing monthly day dates while the kids are at school.

Early in my leadership career, I kept making the same mistake: I took on other people’s problems as my own.

A traditional 9-5 is a box—a rigid structure that stifles productivity and creativity.

We live in a world driven by algorithms.

Developing taste starts with awareness: being mindful and noticing the elements you interact with, the experiences you're part of, and the environments you inhabit.

You don’t have to give up your craft to grow your career.

There’s no shortcut to learning.

AI is transforming the classic product trio: product manager, designer, engineer.

The “Hill Chart” is one of my favorite ways to represent the progress of work.

My kids don’t understand boredom.

In the days when landline phones were ubiquitous, the “busy signal” was a familiar occurrence—a quick beep indicating the person you were trying to reach was on another call.

Some of the most monumental discoveries were made by accident.

We’re in the fourth week of development on a new 0-1 product.

When confronted with difficult problems, we tend to limit our thinking based on our own mental models and experiences.

Building new features and managing tech debt is a tough balance.

How do you get a team to deliver work on time?

What advice do you have for an early career developer?

In the show Silicon Valley (on HBO), the character Gavin Belson showed a slide that read “Failure = Success”.

I once tackled a massive overhaul of a marketing site and web application, going deep into the codebase to revise every line of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

I’ve been writing content for 60 consecutive days.

Multitasking is a lie.

The phrase "Jack of all trades, master of none" often carries a negative connotation.

Challenged assumptions fuel discovery.

Should we let customer feedback guide our product decisions, or is there merit in trusting our gut and the collective intuition of the team?

Momentum is everything.

Spend time expressing appreciation for those you work with.

I've enjoyed reading the Slack release notes for years.

We’re in an overbooked, meeting-first culture that keeps everyone “busy” and not focused on doing the work and delivering value.

I thrive at the crossroads of being a maker and a manager.

Focus on the journey, not just the destination.