When there's absolutely no hope in sight, a person's choices are remarkably interesting.
There’s always a trade-off: pursuing returns means missing opportunities, while seizing opportunities means foregoing returns.
The space between “doing what others can’t” and “enduring what others won’t”—that’s where survival lives.
They sell you face, they sell you vanity, and you dig into your pocket, pull out your money, and hand it over.
You have a need, I fulfill it. If I can fulfill it in bulk, I make money—and sometimes, I can even control you.
Likewise, only someone who clearly understands what they’re implanting in the customer’s mind, and then gets the customer’s money into their own pocket, deserves to be called a product manager.
It doesn't happen overnight. You go from not being able to do it, to being able to do it, and then from being able to do it to figuring out how well you can do it—it's all a process of constant exploration.