The No Fluff Guide to Product Manager Interviews. You've got this. And I'm here to add a boost. https://www.divyacohen.com/ Thu, 18 Jun 2020 17:25:08 -0700 https://www.divyacohen.com/blog/covid-19-nearly-forced-a-postponement-of-a-wedding-how-technology-saved-it https://www.divyacohen.com/blog/covid-19-nearly-forced-a-postponement-of-a-wedding-how-technology-saved-it <a href=https://www.divyacohen.com/blog/covid-19-nearly-forced-a-postponement-of-a-wedding-how-technology-saved-it>Read More</a> Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:31:46 -0700 https://www.divyacohen.com/blog/how-to-ace-the-strategy-product-manager-interview https://www.divyacohen.com/blog/how-to-ace-the-strategy-product-manager-interview <a href=https://www.divyacohen.com/blog/how-to-ace-the-strategy-product-manager-interview>Read More</a> Wed, 04 Mar 2020 18:37:12 -0800 https://www.divyacohen.com/blog/coronavirus-yes-it-is-worth-preparing-for-and-this-is-what-you-need https://www.divyacohen.com/blog/coronavirus-yes-it-is-worth-preparing-for-and-this-is-what-you-need <p>I’m a doctor and a technology product manager. I do not get overly hyped where I don’t think concern is justified. However over the last few weeks, I’ve heard a lot of discussion against the preparation of COVID-19. Generally the argument says that the coronavirus is like the flu, and the flu kills far more people per year than coronavirus, hence we are over hyping it.</p><p> </p><p>Coronavirus is very different to the flu, and here is why:</p><ul><li>It is novel. That means we do not have immunity against it. Our general immune system will respond, and for most people, it’ll cause zero to moderate symptoms. However, for anyone very young or very old or immunocompromised, it can be catastrophic. Coronavirus has so far been the most deadly against males over 70 years old.</li><li>It’s underlying characteristics make it easier to spread. The coronavirus has an R0 (transmissibility score) of 2–4. That means for every one person who gets it, they infect 2–4 people. This is partly because COVID-19 has an incubation period that is far longer than the flu and previous global pandemics. It can stay undetected for 2–14 days (peak case of 21 days). This makes it easier to spread undetected and is likely the reason we now have community cases worldwide (spread of unknown origin).</li><li>It’s mortality rate is very likely higher than the flu. Medical professionals call this the case fatality ratio (CFR). In its simplest form this ratio is the number of confirmed deaths from disease / number of cases of disease. According to this simple ratio, the CFR of COVID-19 is about 2%. As a comparison, the flu is 0.1%. So the coronavirus is atleast 20x more deadly. However, this is an over simplification because both the numerator and denominator can be very different. Let’s start with the denominator. We already know the COVID-19 has a long incubation period and the disease can remain undetected in a lot of people. Which means number of actual cases can be far greater than we know...<a href=https://www.divyacohen.com/blog/coronavirus-yes-it-is-worth-preparing-for-and-this-is-what-you-need>Read More</a> Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:37:20 -0700 https://www.divyacohen.com/blog/how-to-prepare-for-google-s-product-management-technical-round-when-you-are https://www.divyacohen.com/blog/how-to-prepare-for-google-s-product-management-technical-round-when-you-are <a href=https://www.divyacohen.com/blog/how-to-prepare-for-google-s-product-management-technical-round-when-you-are>Read More</a> Thu, 19 Sep 2019 19:46:50 -0700 https://www.divyacohen.com/blog/the-woolly-mammoths-of-digital-health-care https://www.divyacohen.com/blog/the-woolly-mammoths-of-digital-health-care <p>Check out the article published in Forbes <a target="_blank" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2014/12/05/the-woolly-mammoths-of-digital-health-care/#736d8c35483a">here</a>.</p><a href=https://www.divyacohen.com/blog/the-woolly-mammoths-of-digital-health-care>Read More</a>