exit interview - by Jasmine Sun - half-baked futures

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I’ll be doing a live exit interview with Chris Best, CEO and cofounder of Substack, this Tuesday 11/5 at 12pm PT.1 Subscribe and get the Substack app to tune in and ask questions! I quit my job last week. I was a product manager at Substack, where I worked for exactly 3 years and 9 months, joining first as an intern on the “Writer Development” team (just me at the time), before hopping around the org under the guise of titles like Writer Resources (Partnerships), Product Specialist (Community), Product Researcher (Design), Product Manager (Writer Growth), Product Manager (App), and finally Product Manager (Core Product). I didn’t go into this expecting to care very much. I told Hamish in one of our first interviews that “I didn’t dream of labor,” and dared Jairaj to fire me at a late-night dive bar afterparty in 2021. I joked constantly about the uselessness of product managers, both before and after I became one. Graduating into the techlash, my orientation to work was more Uncanny Va

I quit my job last week. I was a product manager at Substack, where I worked for exactly 3 years and 9 months, joining first as an intern on the “Writer Development” team (just me at the time), before hopping around the org under the guise of titles like Writer Resources (Partnerships), Product Specialist (Community), Product Researcher (Design), Product Manager (Writer Growth), Product Manager (App), and finally Product Manager (Core Product). I didn’t go into this expecting to care very much. I told Hamish in one of our first interviews that “I didn’t dream of labor,” and dared Jairaj to…

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