Personal Blog Posts

Being a solopreneur can feel quite lonely. So can being a mother, a product person, a highly-sensitive individual… I made it my mission to bridge the gap between my professional and my private life to show up as authentically and whole-heartedly as I can, inviting others to connect with me from human to human. In this section you can check out extracts from my personal newsletter «Tanja’s Butterflies».

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6. Oktober 2022

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The other day it took my new friend Cem about a week to reply to my message. "So I wanted to reply right away after your message but I realized I did not know the answer to the question how I am doing", he told me once he got back to me. The simplest questions are often the deepest. How are you?A question we are used to ask and being asked a tousend times per year, often not even taking more than a split second to think about our reply. It's only when we know the other person is in deep pain that we suddenly hesitate to even ask. When they just lost their job, their partner or even their child it suddenly feels uncomfortable, shallow...

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Debt

30. September 2022

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Back in the days when I was still actively managing products like e-commerce shops, I used to be worried about what we call tech debt all the time. It's a certain kind of risk you accumulate for prioritizing short-term goals (like releasing new features) over long-term stability (like test coverage and refactoring).Nowadays, to me there are two kinds of debt: the one that I can happily ignore for now - which in our case is the loan we took out when we bought our house. I am quite confident that one way or another we will be able to pay back this money someday and it does not keep me up at night. What does affect my sleep is the second kind of debt. The one...

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Pre-Mortem

16. September 2022

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A vital part of learning consists in looking back on our actions and reflecting in order to adjust our future behavior if needed. In product management, when everything goes to hell, we conduct what we call a post-mortem. It’s like a little funeral for a project, a feature or even a product where everyone gathers to discuss what went wrong and how to avoid this outcome in the future. (Actually, my product friend Sascha told me about a company that literally suits up in black and burries an actual prototype or product item close to their company building… 😉). While this is a valid and useful way to accelerate your learning curve, you still lost value which is especially painful when the stakes are high. In this...

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18. August 2022

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My summer was all "in between". In between ending and re-starting kindergarden. In between day trips, visiting relatives and even our first real camping get-away with the kids (which felt like five minutes at the lake wrapped in two days of packing and two days of unpacking...

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30. Juni 2022

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A few weeks ago I hired a cleaning lady. I thought the difficult part would be finding someone I trust who is efficient, autonomous and flexible. That part turned out to be quite easy. Within four days I had found a great match. The tough part, however, is figuring out whether I really want a stranger cleaning my house. Whether to put yet another fixed appointment in my calendar. Whether to let someone take a close look at each and every corner of a lovely, but pretty imperfect home. Not an easy taskf or me. It turns out I'm the kind of person who cleans before the cleaner...

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