“The bottleneck is going to be good ideas.” Brian Jenney talks about the scarce skill of knowing what’s worth building in the first place, and that’s a muscle most of us stopped exercising the moment we became task-takers. Try building small things. Improve small areas of an existing product. Write a short gdoc with why you disagree with a fundamental belief in the company.

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CareersGuest Article

Bring a Product Manager Mindset to Your Next Engineering Job

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The age of AI demands strong ideas, data driven methods, and experimentation

Brian Jenney

13 Aug 2026

4 min read

Brian Jenney is the owner of Parsity, a program that helps engineers through hands-on training.

Erik Vrielink