Unstuck
Posted: April 8, 2025 Filed under: Diary, Musing Comments Off on UnstuckPM-ing sometimes can be tiring. I have been circling in the same movement.
The wait for strategic clarity is a joke. It never lands. Just empty torrents from upstairs who prefer ambiguity over accountability.
So we drown. Firefighting the daily chaos their vagueness spawns, chasing the phantom of inbox zero, rewriting the same meaningless docs over and over because no one will make a goddamn call.
This isn’t “proactive shaping.” It’s sheer survival.
Sure, anyone can follow a clear plan – that’s the easy part.
But we’re forced to conjure one out of thin air because leadership won’t, or can’t. We learn to stop asking “What’s the direction?” – it’s a wasted question seeking clarity that never arrives.
Instead, we grit our teeth, build the damn raft ourselves, and shove it out saying, “Here. I mapped the chaos you’re ignoring. Poke holes, tear it down, do something – just give us a bearing so we can stop drowning.“
It bleeds you dry. It’s exhausting, thankless work.
Carrying the weight of indecision, constantly course-correcting, buried under tactical emergencies while the strategy remains a ghost. Less product leadership, more glorified chaos janitor.
Understandably, it’s normal to feel stuck sometimes.
I need courage to leverage knowledge and experience to make decisions in an uncertain world. Doing nothing and hoping for direction is a terrible, terrible strategy.