Significant Career Lesson From A Product Manager Engineer At Fintech Company
Honorebel, a Product Manager in Fintech, emphasizes the value of associative thinking for learning and pattern recognition. They also highlight the "KISS method" ("Keep It Simple, Stupid"), stressing the importance of clear and simple communication, even in complex fields like finance, to ensure ideas are easily understood.
Associative Thinking, Simplification, Communication, Pattern Recognition, Finance
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Honorebel S. Walker
Product Manager - Engineer
Fintech Company
University of San Diego
Engineering - Electrical
Aerospace, Aviation & Defense, Finance (Banking, Fintech, Investing)
Product / Service / Software Development and Management
Scholarship Recipient, Pell Grant Recipient, Took Out Loans, First Generation College Student
Video Highlights
1. Associative thinking: Seeing patterns and drawing similarities between concepts, especially when encountering something unfamiliar, can aid in understanding, leveraging tools like AI to simplify the process.
2. KISS method (Keep It Simple, Stupid): Simplifying complex topics, especially relevant in fields like finance, by ensuring explanations are easily understandable, even to someone with limited knowledge.
3. Communication Clarity: Prioritizing simplicity in communication to ensure ideas are easily grasped, aiming for a level of clarity where understanding requires minimal effort from the audience.
Transcript
What is one lesson that you have learned that has proven to be successful in your career?
A lesson I would say is more of a skill. I would say being an associative thinker. I think that's kind of how I learn. I kind of see metaphors and things; I see patterns.
Meaning that if there's something I don't understand, especially now with AI, it can be made a little easier. But for the thing that you don't understand, trying to draw a similarity with another concept is very easy to learn.
Also, something that someone else told me is called the KISS method: Keep It Simple, Stupid. I think sometimes, in finance, which is very complicated, and most industries are not nearly half as complicated, even top tech companies aren't that complicated.
I'll say really, keeping it simple, stupid, making sure you could teach something to a sixth grader is really important. I also think making sure that when you communicate your ideas, you keep it as simple as possible. Not necessarily with the fewest words, but just keep it so that someone would be almost stupid not to get it. So that's where it comes from: Keep It Simple, Stupid, the KISS method.