▲Takeaway21:00
Guard Your Peak Hours: Know Your Chronotype
Paige advises knowing your chronotype and protecting the window when you have the most mental headspace for your hardest work. As a morning person, she blocks meetings before 10 or 11am so that time is reserved for her most demanding tasks.
- Identify your chronotype and protect the time you have the most head space
- Paige, a morning person, avoids meetings before 10-11am
- Use that protected window for your hardest task of the day
“I would encourage you to know your chronotype and to walk that time where you have the most head space to do that work”
#productivity#deep-work#time-management
▲Takeaway26:00
Real Confidence Is Being Willing to Ask the Question
On projecting confidence, Paige argues it comes from being brave in small moments, showing up before you're ready, and being vulnerable rather than armored. Real confidence is conveyed by being willing to ask a question or admit you don't understand, plus attentiveness, eye contact, and body language that shows you're present.
- Be brave and courageous in small moments; speak before you're fully ready
- Vulnerability builds more trust than projecting all-knowing armor
- Confidence shows in willingness to ask questions and admit confusion
- Body language, eye contact, and scanning the room convey more than assertiveness
“you have to show up and say it before you're ready to say it and ask for forgiveness and be vulnerable”
“real confidence is often conveyed by being willing to ask the question or to say I don't know what you mean by that”
#confidence#communication#leadership#vulnerability
▲Takeaway29:00
Why Coaching by Example Beats Telling People What to Do
Paige explains her preference for teaching by example over instruction, grounding it in repetition: we are all students of repetition, and seeing something done a few times makes it stick. She runs her meetings the way she wants meetings run, so people internalize the pattern by exposure rather than being lectured.
- We're all students of repetition; seeing something done a few times helps internalize it
- Run your meetings the way you want meetings to be run elsewhere
- Model the behavior you hope people replicate in rooms you're not in
- Leading by example teaches a repeatable pattern rather than a one-off instruction
“I think the main thing is repetition uh we're all students of repetition if you see something done a few times you're more likely to…”
#coaching#management#leadership#mentoring
▲Takeaway34:00
Two Pieces of Advice: Don't Self-Select, and Think Big Ship Small
Paige shares recurring advice she gives. First, don't self-select out of opportunities by assuming you lack the experience; apply anyway. Second, think big but ship small: work in small chunks toward a big vision to avoid getting too incremental and losing the bigger picture.
- Don't self-select out; it's easy to say you're not experienced enough and not apply
- Think big, ship small: find the smallest thing you can do toward the big goal
- Shipping small chunks avoids getting too incremental and wrapped around a metric
- Advice lands best when tailored to a specific person at a specific career stage
“advice I love giving to people who are early in their career is don't self-select”
“think big ship small like what's what's the smallest thing you can do to do that thing”
#career-advice#product-management#execution
▲Takeaway52:30
Three Checks for Whether You're in the Right Role
On managing her career, Paige focuses on the skills and experiences she wants rather than specific roles or companies. She assesses a role by three things: the steepness of her learning curve, whether the environment (staffing, tooling, healthy people) supports her growth, and whether the problem is genuinely interesting. She adds that passions are made, not found.
- Think in terms of skills and experiences you want, not roles or companies
- Check the steepness of your learning curve; are you being challenged?
- Check the environment: staffing, tooling, advocates, and no toxic people
- Check the problem: is it fun and interesting? Passions are made, not found
“I evaluate whether I'm in a healthy role and in a good setup by asking myself about my learning curve”
“passions are made not found”
#career#growth#self-assessment#decision-making