Bijan Shahrokhi is Creator of PM Exercises and Product Monkey AI. He is a product management executive with 10+ years of experience in building disruptive technologies. He was previously Head of Product at O(1)Labs, working on Mina Protocol, the world’s lightest blockchain, an L1 project. In today's episode: • The key pillars of productivity • How to be more productive in our lives (for PMs and everybody) • Emerging productivity tools — Bijan's contact and company info: • Twitter: https://twitter.com/bijan_sha • Product Monkey AI: https://productmonkey.ai/ • PM Exercises: https://www.productmanagementexercises.com/ — Where to find the host, Adam Wakeling: • Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamjwakeling • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-wakeling-26494b35/ — In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Introduction (02:32) Bijan's view of productivity as a concept (04:18) Where to start with being more productive (09:53) The next steps (12:34) Discussion around prioritisation (17:50) Differentiation between team and individual productivity (19:22) Tactics and The 5AM Club (25:18) Using mini milestones (26:30) Importance of exercise (30:50) Tactics around improving knowledge (31:46) Using generative AI for productivity (34:02) Bijan's story in founding PM Exercises and Product Monkey AI (40:54) The tension between productivity and redundancy (43:48) Privacy and security around AI (48:28) Emerging productivity tools (50:48) Final thoughts from Bijan (52:03) Outro 🌐 Subscribe for free on Substack 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts 🎧 Listen on Spotify 🌐 Follow the host on LinkedIn 🌐 Follow the host on X
