I’m Omar, and this is my blog. I write about product management, productivity, personal finances, and Japan – I spent summer 2009 in Osaka and fell in love with the people and country.
Since very young, I’ve been fascinated by technology. After studying chemical engineering in college, I spent three years in consulting, a year in customer success at a startup, and since 2014 started working as a product manager. I’ve loved the challenge of product management both at a startup, where I was a product manager for three years, and since 2017 at Google.
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Popular articles
Career transitions
- From consulting, customer success into Product Management
- How I transitioned job functions
- Google PM Interview – full interview process overview
- Google PM interview – how to prepare
Product Management
- [Quora Answer] How stressful is it to be a product manager at a tech company? (my most popular writing to date)
- How to write a Product Requirements Document (PRD)
- Learning resources for new product managers
- Becoming a Product Manager without a Computer Science degree
Career development
- Dealing with ambiguity and work-related stress
- Startups won’t build your career on your behalf – you must
- Why quit consulting to join a startup
Other popular articles
- How to control your emotions: observe, don’t react to, your thoughts
- How to control anger – use your brain to cool down
- Japanese Customer Service (still popular after 8+ years…)
- Apologize & thank profusely – a lesson I’ve learned in Japan
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