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Mona Truong

Updating your mindset is just like updating a product

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There’s one thing we’re really good at as builders:
we constantly try to improve our work and our product every single day. But an honest question I often ask myself is: do we put the same effort into updating ourselves?

At Murror, we’re a small team of around five people.
For me, it’s important not only to improve the product, but to continuously update my mindset, skills, and learnings and share them openly with the team.

I try to communicate everything I learn, ask questions, and clarify problems as much as possible, so the product we’re building becomes better, clearer, and more convincing for our users.

To do that, I try to practice a few things consistently:

  • Spend at least 30 minutes a day reading news and researching

  • Communicate with the team and ask as many questions as possible

  • Use our own product as much as I can to identify real problems

  • Share my personal story and vision to build stronger alignment and trust within the team

  • Maintain a stable emotional state and mindset, because how you feel affects how you build

There’s a quote I deeply believe in: “The way you do one thing is the way you do everything.”

I apply seriousness, discipline, curiosity, and a willingness to learn not only in my daily life, but directly in my work.
Every day, I ask myself how I can be better. And I ask the same question about our product not treating it as just a task to complete, but something to grow with intention.

I’m grateful that I can create both pressure and motivation for myself every day not in an extreme way, but in a conscious one. Understanding what I want, what I need, and how to move forward in a way that feels sustainable.

How do you combine personal growth and product growth in your own journey?

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Nika

Hey Mona, I am so glad you shared your workflow and the whole path. I am almost the same – also starting the day with checking the news.

My additional recommendations are:

  • Read besides news also books (with books, you are more likely to focus on long-reading, not just short-form internet text)

  • Discuss outside the team because of "untapped" perspectives

  • Attend events

I am still trying to learn something new and stay active. It is difficult, but without the effort, there is no growth.

Mona Truong

@busmark_w_nika Love it Nika, we can learn and grow together <3

Nika
Musa Molla

This resonates. Growth compounds when you treat mindset like a product, observe, iterate and stay intentional. Emotional clarity often shows up directly in product clarity.

Bhavin Sheth

I have learned the hard way that products rarely outgrow the mindset of the people building them. When my thinking was reactive or rushed, the product reflected that. When I slowed down, got clearer, & invested in learning, the product quality improved almost automatically.

What’s worked for me is treating personal growth as part of the product roadmap, not something separate:

  • Learning daily, even in small doses

  • Using the product myself and feeling its friction firsthand

  • Talking openly with the team about doubts, not just wins

  • Paying attention to emotional state, because stress leaks into decisions and UX more than we realize

That quote is spot on — the way you do one thing really is the way you do everything. Discipline, curiosity, and self-awareness compound just like good product decisions do.

Curious: as the team grows, how do you make sure this mindset stays part of the culture and does not get lost in speed and shipping pressure?