Product Blocks is a blog on the building blocks for successful tech product companies. Learn best practices on product, design, engineering, and leadership used by the best companies.
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Remember the days when you were a child and you were building things with plastic blocks?
You used different blocks with different shapes and colors to make various creations like buildings, vehicles, and animals. The same set of plastic blocks let you build different things. The only thing that was stopping you was your imagination.
Building things with plastic blocks is not far from building teams and companies. Think of the ways of working of each team and company as a set of plastic blocks. Each plastic block represents a specific technique, framework, and principles used.
There is a big difference in how best and rest work. While each company is different, the building blocks used by the best product companies (think Apple, Google, Amazon, Spotify, Netflix, and many more) are shockingly similar. This is where I write about the blocks they use - their techniques, practices, frameworks, principles, and views. No fancy talk, just step-by-step instructions on how to apply those yourself.
My name is Piotr Kacała, I'm a CTO, a product coach, and a product leader. I spent over 20 years building products and teams.
Product Blocks is a newsletter on building blocks for creating great products and successful tech companies step-by-step.
I created it to help companies build better products and happier, more effective teams. We deserve a world with happier customers and employees.
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Blocks catalog helps you see the big picture and find the best practices you need first.
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Most of the advice will be helpful to companies of all sizes.
I post practical guides for product, design, and engineering people every two weeks.
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