Tags: #learning-how-to-work #dough In the US, we spend 14, 18, maybe more years of our lives in school. Education, academia has a standard curriculum, with a series of milestones and achievements. It's kind of baked into our brains from a young age that completing a homework/assignment/project is progress, is the main objective. And then you graduate and go into the workforce. And in my life as product designer/manager hybrid person, my expectation was producing = progress. PRODUCTION = PROGRESS and yet I often go days without designing a thing. without even touching Figma. and it feels like I make no progress so I'm thinking about how to reassess and redefine my idea of progress. it's not necessarily ( in fact, it's rarely) about deliverables. Some days you may not have artifacts to show for you efforts. But you might have learned something new from a user, or clarified some product requirement for an engineer. It might even be just understanding your product a little bit better today. That is progress. Created: May 24, 2021 Last Modified: May 30, 2021