Yet another great fruitful mentor night at CascadeSF, one of my favorite meetups in San Francisco. I love insights from my mentor Kal Michael on product thinking.

1. It’s important to keep a problem & solving mentality. Sometimes you need to break things down to discover the real problems, see them as opportunities and find the solve.

2. It’s too easy to just give opinions on things (i.e. “that thing is crap!”), but the real challenge is whether you can do some thinking on the original intention — why it was built that way, how it can be better. Opportunities are waiting right there.

3. Ask lots of questions, ask lots of “whys”.