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As a product manager, do you need to be technical?

The question isn’t whether or not you should be technical, it’s how technical should you be?

9 min readMay 31, 2023

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As a product manager, do you need to be technical?

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How to bring engineers into the product discovery process

This essay is featured in March 2024’s issue of the Skiplevel: Tech for Product Managers newsletter. Every month I share a Tech Term You…

6 min readMar 28, 2024

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How to bring engineers into the product discovery process

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How Duolingo built their Viral Superbowl Ad

This essay is featured in February 2024’s issue of the Skiplevel: Tech for Product Managers newsletter. Every month I share a Tech Term You…

9 min readMar 1, 2024

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How Duolingo built their Viral Superbowl Ad

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Responding to devs when they say “No”: 4 key questions for Product Managers

This essay is featured in January 2024’s issue of the Skiplevel: Tech for Product Managers newsletter. Every month I share a Tech Term You…

5 min readJan 31, 2024

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Responding to devs when they say “No”: 4 key questions for Product Managers

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$250k to $0… 4 Lessons from top product managers

This essay is featured in December 2023’s issue of the Skiplevel: Tech for Product Managers newsletter. Every month I share a Tech Term You…

9 min readDec 28, 2023

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[Part 3] Debugging APIs Best Practices for Product Managers

This essay is featured in November 2023’s issue of the Skiplevel: Tech for Product Managers newsletter. Every month I share a Tech Term You…

8 min readNov 28, 2023

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[Part 3] Debugging APIs Best Practices for Product Managers

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[Part 2] REST API components & How to read them

This essay is featured in October 2023’s issue of the Skiplevel newsletter. Every month I share a Tech Term You Should Know (TTYSK) and an…

7 min readOct 31, 2023

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[Part 2] REST API components & How to read them

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[Part 1] Guide to APIs: 3 API protocols for Product Managers

APIs are the ultimate communicators of the internet and they allow two applications to communicate with each other.

7 min readOct 2, 2023

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[Part 1] Guide to APIs: 3 API protocols for Product Managers

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Guide to Cloud & Serverless Computing for Product Managers

The first step to building software applications is deciding how to architect the system. Infrastructure decisions are a big piece of this…

6 min readAug 30, 2023

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Guide to Cloud & Serverless Computing for Product Managers

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Managing project deadlines as a Product Manager

This article is featured in the Skiplevel newsletter where I answer questions directly from the tech community about leveling up their…

6 min readJul 27, 2023

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Managing project deadlines as a Product Manager

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Irene Yu

Irene Yu

Founder @ Skiplevel.co: Join top product managers in leveling up your technical skills and ability to communicate with engineers.

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