So I Hear You're Going on Sabbatical? Where are You Going?
I'm going to be attempting to write a book in three months as well as documenting my different slightly different approach to it. Having worked as a Product Manager I'm keen to treat this book as a product I want to take to market. Any advice to an aspiring writer very much appreciated (needed)! If you want to follow slightly different take on the process please follow me on ******
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Hi all, this is my first LinkedIn video blog and also the most exciting news I've had to share
in a while. I'm about to embark on a three-month sabbatical and a lot
of people have been asking me "Where are you going?". So I'm actually not going to be going
anywhere, unusually enough, I am going to try and write a book in that time period instead.
As many of you may suspect it's not a lot of time to
write a book in. So I want to take a slightly different approach. Instead of holding
myself up in a cabin for three months and not talking to anybody so that I can
write, I want to actually take a lot of product principles and apply them to
what I do. I've been working as a product manager for two teams and
I've really enjoyed it, I really enjoy the process. I like having a vision that
you can align a team around so they know where they're going,
I like having customer centric design so having the customer at the heart of
everything you do and the decisions you make, and also the iterative development
cycles, so trying not to build the perfect thing
initially but accepting that you'll learn more by just giving it to people
and seeing how it turns out afterwards. I'm going to be documenting this process
and sharing it. You don't need to know, necessarily, what product
management is to embark on this adventure with me. I'm going to be laying
all that out in my first blog post saying exactly how the process is going
to work. I'd be really interested in getting people's
thoughts and opinions on it which is my entire point to making this video in the first
place. So I'd like to ask people for help, get some advice. Maybe you work as
a writer, maybe you work as a publisher, maybe you've done something like this
before, maybe it's your side hustle. I'd be really interesting in hearing how it's
going for you and what massive learnings you've had along the way as well. So
follow me if you're interested in this process and thank you in advance for listening or
commenting, sharing advice and I look forward to sharing this adventure with you.
