My two sons are now 15 and 12. Becoming a mother absolutely turned my life inside out. Looking back on my motherhood journey so far, I can say that the first five years really kicked my ass and I survived to tell my story. In 2007, at the age of…

7 skills to become a successful product manager — Recently I’ve been conducting quite a few mock product manager (PM) interviews at Google, to help Googlers who are preparing for their final interviews before being approved to transfer into the PM job family. It still amazes me that when assessing a candidate for a PM role, we have to…

I had the good fortune of joining Amazon in 2001 right after graduating university. Back then, the 23 year old me thought I might stay for two or three years before moving onto the next thing. I never would have guessed that I’d end up staying for 10 years. But…

I spent 13 years working at Amazon, having started my career there back in 2001 as a software engineer. For five of those years, I was a product manager. Most recently I worked in Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Principal Technical Product Manager until 2018. So when I joined…

When we asked our fellow expat friends living in Europe “what is your favorite holiday spot?” Many of them emphatically said “Crete”. So in the summer of 2021, we planned a 12 day trip to this bucket list destination. …

I went to three different schools in my first three years in Canada after immigrating from China at age 11. Those first days at a new school and the vivid feelings of discomfort still stay with me to this day. …

It took 160 days for one of our YouTube videos to reach its first 300 views. For our most recent video, it took 2 days. What happened? This is the power of finding product-market fit. Here’s the story of our journey. It was the end of 2018 and I had…

It was 2007 and I was working at Amazon as a Technical Program Manager in the Amazon Web Services department. My job was to organize software development projects, i.e. defining requirements, estimates, and schedules. You probably know that software projects are notorious for being unpredictable. …

I always knew I wanted to be a mother ever since I was little. I can’t explain why but it’s just something I knew in my heart. So after my husband and I had been a couple for seven years (and married for two) we felt the time was right…