Post Modern and Wikipedia

Dave McClure, a great guy, valley geek, and self promoter wrote a blog post titled Resumes Are For Sh*t.  Basic idea – resumes don’t cut it anymore.  Instead its what you do, who you know and how you leverage it.  Its about social networking, linkedin invitations and especially blogging.  So I needed to find something that I’m an expert in (product management), put my own spin on it, and own the space.

Searching the google return set of blogs on product management shows me that:

  • Most blogs on product management are rather dry affairs (except for my favorite Cranky PM)
  • Most blogs take the ivory tower approach (have you worked in the real world as a PM?)
  • Most blogs dont deal with my specific space (Im in internet software / services in small agile startups)

Ok, I got my space, now I need my spin. So, I spent the last week searching for a catchy name for this blog.  I think I got it as “The Post Modern Product Manager”.  Its the PM-PM of PM blogs.

Why you ask?

If you look up the definition of postmodernism you will find:

A late 20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies” (especially what it really like to be a product manager… more in later posts).

Merriam Webster goes further:

  1. of, relating to, or being an era after a modern one (post bubble?)
  2. relating to a reaction to modernism that are typically characterized by ironic self-reference and absurdity (Just my style..)
  3. of, relating to, or being a theory that involves a radical reappraisal of modern assumptions (is what product managers need – a swift kick in one’s modern assumptions of being a PM)

So therefore, blog on!