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About · Piotr Ciechowicz

I work where strategy meets the reality of building.

Work and writing

A product manager who also builds.

I work across product strategy and development. The articles and projects here show the questions I focus on, how I make trade-offs, and what I build.

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Published articles

Guides and essays on the decisions that come up while planning, building, and improving products.

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Main topics

Strategy, discovery, delivery, measurement, leadership, and technical product work.

Experience

Product manager, developer, and startup advisor based in Germany.

View my experience on LinkedIn

About the journal

What I write about.

  1. 01

    Product strategy

    Choosing a market, setting priorities, shaping a roadmap, and deciding what not to build.

  2. 02

    Discovery and validation

    Research, interviews, and experiments that help a team decide what is worth building.

  3. 03

    Design and delivery

    Working with design and engineering to turn a product idea into software people can use.

  4. 04

    Leadership and growth

    Stakeholder work, team habits, metrics, and the choices involved in growing a product.

In practice

I manage products and build them too.

I’m a product manager and developer based in Germany. I work on ambiguous product problems, from setting direction and testing an idea to getting a useful version into people’s hands.

Being able to work across product and code helps me test ideas quickly, understand technical constraints, and stay involved after the roadmap is agreed.

On reStruggle I share the methods, books, and lessons that have been useful to me while doing that work.

How I work

Four things I care about.

A practical approach to product work: get close to the problem, make informed choices, and keep learning through delivery.

  1. 01

    Start with the real problem

    Understand user needs before choosing a solution or writing code.

  2. 02

    Use data with judgement

    Let evidence guide decisions without pretending a metric can make them for you.

  3. 03

    Build to learn

    Start with the smallest useful version, learn quickly, and improve deliberately.

  4. 04

    Bring the right people together

    Bring design, engineering, and business into the same product conversation.

Why the name?

Building products is messy.

Work

Products I’ve built and what I learned along the way.

Writing

Practical notes on product management and development.

Let’s connect

Have a product question or something worth building?

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