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Product Ethics

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Product Leadership

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Join our podcast hosts Lily Smith and Randy Silver for in-depth conversations with some of the best product people around the world! Every week they chat with people in the know, covering the topics that matter to you - solving real problems, developing awesome products, building successful teams and developing careers. Find out more, subscribe, and access all episodes on <a href="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/the-product-experience/">The Product Experience homepage</a>.

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The Product Experience

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<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-16462" src="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/rian_headshot-300x300.jpg" alt="Rian van der Merwe" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/rian_headshot-300x300.jpg 300w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/rian_headshot-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/rian_headshot-768x768.jpg 768w, https://www.mindtheproduct.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/rian_headshot.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />The Head of Product at Wildbit, Rian van der Merwe has spent his career being crazy busy &#8211; and he&#8217;s had enough of it. He joined us to talk about slowing down to speed up, making sure your team(s) are productive, and managing yourself to provide the most value to everyone around you.</p>
<h3>Quote of the Episode</h3>
<blockquote><p>We&#8217;re crazy busy taking on too much responsibility and not trusting our teams enough.</p></blockquote>
<h3>Listen if you&#8217;d like to learn more about</h3>
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<li>Remote working and four-day weeks</li>
<li>Structuring your day &#8211; and your team&#8217;s workload</li>
<li>Diagnosing the problem as well as strategies to fix it</li>
</ul>
<h3>Links mentioned in this episode</h3>
<ul>
<li>Follow Rian <a href="https://twitter.com/RianVDM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">on Twitter</a> and keep up with his writing at <a href="https://elezea.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Elezea.com</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Parkinson&#8217;s Law</a></li>
<li>Natalie Nagale on <a href="https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/090-natalie-nagele-of-wildbit" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Indie Hackers</a></li>
<li>Teresa Torres on the <a href="https://h2rproductscience.com/ep005-teresa-torres/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Product Science podcast</a></li>
<li>Ryan Singer of Basecamp&#8217;s <a href="https://www.feltpresence.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">articles, etc.</a></li>
<li>Javier Grillo-Marxuach, <a href="http://okbjgm.weebly.com/uploads/3/1/5/0/31506003/11_laws_of_showrunning_nice_version.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The 11 Laws of Showrunning</a></li>
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<h3>Hosts</h3>
<p>The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.</p>
<p><strong>Lily</strong> enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. She has worked on a diverse range of products &#8211; leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. Lily also founded ProductTank in Bristol, the Product Managers&#8217; meetup with regular events and talks on Product now with 800+ members and growing. This year Lily will be launching ProductCamp in Bristol and she joins the MTP team as co-host of The Product Experience podcast.</p>
<p>A recovering music journalist and editor, <strong>Randy</strong> has been working as an interactive producer and product manager across the US and UK for nearly 20 years. After launching Amazon’s music stores in the US and UK, Randy has worked with museums and arts groups, online education, media &amp; entertainment, retail and financial services. He’s held Head of Product roles at HSBC and Sainsbury’s, where he also directed their 100+-person product community. He&#8217;s spoken at Mind the Product Engage (Hamburg and Manchester), at a number of ProductTanks (London, Zurich, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Oxford, and Brighton&#8230; so far!) and at conferences across the US and Europe.</p>
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<h3>Music</h3>
<p>Our theme music is from Hamburg-based Pau, featuring ProductTank Hamburg’s own Arne Kittler on bass. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Paupulism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Listen to more on their Facebook page</a></p>
<h3>Suggest a guest</h3>
<p>Have you seen someone give a great talk? <a href="https://mindtheproduct.typeform.com/to/oi0UyX" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Suggest a guest to us here</a></p>
<h3>Talk to us</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/MTPpod" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tweet at us!</a></li>
<li>Use the #podcast channel in the <a href="https://mindtheproduct.slack.com/messages/CE13B3A23" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mind the Product Slack community</a></li>
</ul>

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