I recently had a great conversation with Shreyas Doshi, where we discussed topics like communication, building a learning mindset, and managing your career as a Product Manager. Inspired by our chat, I thought I would give you a behind-the-scenes look at how performance assessments, calibrations, and ratings work.  I have been a manager for nearly two decades, and I previously helped design a large PM calibration system. There is a lot going on behind the scenes that is invisible to most of the people who get rated, and non-managers usually never see what happens in these closed rooms.

What’s the standard day rate for an editorial shoot? Why do commercial photography prices seem so random? Is it ever okay to accept a job that doesn’t pay well? And can you really make $15,000 per day as a photographer? Let’s find out.  As part of Feature Shoot’s premium newsletter, we asked industry leaders to peel back the curtain and provide some no-nonsense advice on how photographers should be pricing their work.

1× 0:00 -14:19 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.In college during the early 90s, an English Lit professor told me I should read The New York Times Book Review. Since digital media wasn’t upon us yet, I schlepped to a different town every Sunday to buy the Times because none of the convenience stores in my town sold it. I had never read a book review section before, so devouring literary criticism on the weekend sounded pretty good as a 20yo English major.

“You promised me a notwithstanding clause” must surely be one of the stranger complaints made by an outgoing home secretary to the prime minister who appointed her, particularly as Suella Braverman was given something pretty similar by Rishi Sunak as part of her “stop the boats” legislation. A notwithstanding clause, as I understand it, says that you ar… ncG1vNJzZmiqn6%2Byr67Eq55nq6WXwLWtwqRlnKedZL1ww8eaq6xlkWK7sMDWoquhq6SWu6W1zaBknKSRqsCm

Pulling the goalie is a tactical move to add a skater on the ice to try to overwhelm the defense. It’s a high-risk, high-reward proposition that deserves a nuanced analysis. There are two basically two decisions that a coach needs to make: How much time is left on the clock when we pull the goalie? At what point in play should we pull the goalie? Many of you likely saw the below clip of Vancouver Canucks forward J.