I am Halim, a software-engineer turned PM, I love making things, thinking deeply about user interfaces and systems, bringing people together and creating delightful products. I have been tinkering with the decentralized-protocols for some time now and have created few projects. If I am not researching, writing specs for features, I will often be scrounging HackerNews, top Github repos or reading. At times, you will often find me with 100 tabs open and a notepad full of bullet notes and sketches.
I strongly believe in:
“You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want.” by Zig Ziglar
I read a lot about many different things from philosophy to blogs on scaling distributed systems. I used to code back in college but soon realised coding can get lonely sometimes. By virtue of being a people’s person and having a spidey-sense for good products, product management seemed like a natural fit. Though I still want to someday take time out and build things completely on my own.
I like doing hackathons, design sprints, automating processes, analyzing metrics and coming up with solutions within constrainst. Over the last few years I have managed the development and launch of 3 mobile apps+ webapps with 100k+ users, consulted for blockchain startups and most recently sold a Decentralized Exchange on top of 0xProject
What I like doing
Latest Posts
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The PM Workflow
Having a shared understanding of the Product Development process at any startup is arguably one of the most important thing at a startup. At a very early stage when there are just 4 founders, hacking together a product, having a streamlined process of planning, roadmapping and QA might not be hugely important.
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Why startup?
When do you decide to do startup? Is starting up intentional or is it a result of doing things that you like out of natural curiosity and unintentionally stumbling upon an opportunity that you decide to capitalize on hoping a home run :)
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Deciding What To Build NEXT?
Reposted from my original post Medium Deciding What To Build NEXT? – HelloMeets – Medium Product Managers are an interesting lot. Talk to any PM about their product and they would have a hundreds of different ideas about features they want to add to their product.
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On Deliberate Practice and Compounded Growth in Learning
Skill is a result of focussed and consistent practice. When you are learning to improve, the initial rate of skill acquired is usually a flat line. A great quote from Ira Glass
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Notes on Learning How To Learn
Notes from the fantastic course on Learning How To Learn 1. INTRO/FOCUSED VS. DIFFUSED THINKING Can only be in one or the other Diffused when writing, write in diffuse mode, edit in focused mode to engage diffuse brain - before writing, mind-mapping/clustering - take a paper, hold landscape when you write, you want to create new things, think of new relationships.
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BlockGiving- A decentralized giving network
Colony Hackathon Submission A decentalized, self-perpuating, cross-border giving network on top of COLONY Project Description This project now lives at Github Goal: To create a self-perpetuating, decentralized, cross-borders, Giving Platform.
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Designing a scalable content crawler with a dashboard
Goals: To create a comprehensive repository of blogposts from multiple sources. Shorten time required to find relevant items to post read and search. To provide our users a steady stream of content relevant to the Interests & Topics selected by them.
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Digital Signature and Public Key Cryptography
Digital Signature
Just like a written signature of a document, but it’s in digital form. The desired features:
- Only you can sign your own signature
- Everyone can verify your signature
- A signature is tied to a certain document, it can’t be copied and used with other documents