Mastering Productivity: Insights for PMs and Beyond | Bijan Shahrokhi (Founder, Product Monkey AI)

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

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Bijan's contact and company info:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/bijan_sha

• Product Monkey AI: https://productmonkey.ai/

• PM Exercises: https://www.productmanagementexercises.com/

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Where to find the host, Adam Wakeling:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamjwakeling

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-wakeling-26494b35/



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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

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