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Weeknotes (10) – mama can’t pour from an empty cup

Last week was exhausting. I cried in a meeting because I felt overwhelmed. The thing that tipped me over the edge was a very long email…

Feb 27, 2023

Feb 27, 2023

Weeknotes (9) — your diary is your priorities; being really sick; multi-disciplinary…

My ‘week’ this week has actually been 2 days. I came down with a horrible lurgy on Tuesday and didn’t leave my bed for 48 hours. Despite…

Feb 16, 2023

Coffee and notepad

Feb 16, 2023

Weeknotes (8) – now next later roadmaps; near misses; good reads

Last week was tiring. Which is why I’m writing these on Sunday. I don’t want to get out of the habit of writing and reflecting every week…

Feb 12, 2023

Coffee and notepad

Feb 12, 2023

Weeknotes (7) – F2F collaboration; could chatGBT replace product??

This week I worked one day in our Manchester office, one from home and two days from Belfast. It’s the first time I’ve travelled by plane…

Feb 5, 2023

Coffee and notepad

Feb 5, 2023

Weeknotes (6) — riskiest assumptions vs MVPs; connecting the strategy dots

This week has been really energising. I’ve had 3 days in the office and the time with colleagues has been so productive (and fun!). We’ve…

Jan 27, 2023

Coffee and notepad

Jan 27, 2023

Weeknotes (5) – creating space to think; figma basics; sliding scales in decision making

Well, we had 24 hours of good family health, before D&V hit. In some ways I feel that two vomiting children when you’re not well yourself…

Jan 20, 2023

Coffee and notepad

Jan 20, 2023

Weeknotes (4) – presentation prep styles; 5 product planning artefacts; product leadership in…

This week I finally made it back into the office after a month of train strikes, illness and holidays. It felt soooo good to be back…

Jan 14, 2023

Coffee and notepad

Jan 14, 2023

Weeknotes (3) — parenting realities; Jira product tools; quarterly planning

At the beginning of December I started writing weeknotes…and then stopped after my second issue. That wasn’t intentional. I just got sick…

Jan 9, 2023

Coffee and notepad

Jan 9, 2023

Weeknotes (2) — Outcomes over outputs; start up funding; planning in uncertain times

This week I feel like every waking second of my days has been spent trying to reduce my work or personal to do lists and I think they’ve…

Dec 1, 2022

Coffee and notepad

Dec 1, 2022

Weeknotes (1) — finance for product leaders, is Google broken?,

I’ve decided to start writing weeknotes. I’ve just joined Vypr as their first Head of Product. I’m returning to work 4 days a week (80%…

Nov 24, 2022

Coffee and notepad

Nov 24, 2022

Philippa Peasland

Philippa Peasland

Head of Product at Vypr, a Manchester HQd product insight SaaS scale-up. Product nerd. Principles over processes. Sensitivity over semantics.

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