The success of your career often depends on your impact. While you might find yourself building numerous things—such as reports, pipelines, ingesting additional data sources, merging pull requests, or producing many lines of code—you may realize that these activities alone aren't propelling your career forward.

You're producing outputs and gauging your work by these outputs. However, output isn't synonymous with outcome. Your outputs might have limited business value and negligible impact. In essence, you're caught in the "building trap."

This is why I highly recommend the book "Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value." This book will introduce you to the fundamentals of product management and the outcome-driven approach. It aims to help you avoid the building trap, create value for businesses, and focus on meaningful impacts that can genuinely advance your career.

P.S. Naturally, this will shine brightest when paired with a team and leadership that truly have their eyes on outcomes and can deftly distinguish between "output" and "outcome." Wouldn't that be refreshing?

Link to book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42611483-escaping-the-build-trap