I didn’t get my Product School certification to learn product management.
I was already doing it.
Launching features. Talking to users. Tracking metrics. Breaking down messy problems.
Shipping things that sometimes worked… and sometimes didn’t.
Basically learning product management the startup way.
Somewhere along the way I realized something important:
Experience teaches you the pain. Frameworks teach you the pattern.
That’s why I decided to complete my Product Management certification.
Not because I needed a badge.
But because I wanted better language for the lessons I was already living every day.
Product management, in my opinion, is a combination of frameworks and judgment.
Frameworks help you structure thinking. Judgment comes from actually building.
This program helped me connect the two.
A big thank you to Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia and Product School for guiding the journey, and to Jeff Kurtz for being an incredible instructor throughout the course.
The biggest lesson for me:
You don’t wait to become great before you start learning.
You learn while building. You build while struggling.
And slowly the frameworks start making sense because now you’ve actually lived them.
Still learning. Still shipping. Still trying to get 1% better every week.
Because in product (and honestly in life) the people who grow the fastest are the ones who never stop being students.