My product was failing. I was failing. I experienced sleepless nights, cried once in a bathroom, and once escaped to a church to cry...and I’m not even religious. I was crying not because my product had failed, but because I felt I had failed. My sense of self-worth and the value of my product were one and the same. I was conflating product failure with personal failure...and I was burning out. Even now, some of the products I work on see slower adoption and growth than I would like. But I no longer feel like I personally am a failure. To foster emotional distance, I am my product’s worst
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