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Shishir Mehrotra’s Home


Welcome to my new home page! I’ve always wanted a center for everything from musings to favorite links. I’ll be adding more to this over time. If you want to keep updated, sign up for my newsletter at .
A bit about me: I’m founder/CEO of
, a new all-in-one doc, and previously spent a generation at Google (mostly on YouTube), and Microsoft (mostly on Office and Windows). I grew up in Virginia, went to MIT for college, where I met my wife Anjuli. We have two wonderful daughters (14 and 17). Fun fact: I coach my daughters’ which has qualified for World Championships in 4 of the last 7 years!
I write regularly about a wide set of topics, and you can see my published docs on the . If you’re looking for a starting point, consider:
My current fascination obsession is with learning about . I was drawn to this topic after a chat with Bing Gordon, a friend and mentor, and have now interviewed over 1,000 leaders and companies about their rituals. I’m working on publishing this as a book in 2024. To read and contribute to early drafts, sign up
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Latest Highlights: Presenting at Lenny & Friends Summit

At the end of October, I gave a talk at Lenny Rachitsky’s Lenny & Friends Summit about how we can 10x decisions with intentionally-designed rituals. I’ve been a huge fan of Lenny and his community for years, and it was amazing seeing such a dense group of talented product thinkers in one space.
The video came out great, and I’m excited to share it with everyone...
And if you want to dive in further, my Coda doc includes the , the full , as well as free templates for the rituals I discussed.


Presenting at Figma Config 2024

Yuhki Yamashita (Figma CPO) and I enjoyed our joint presentation at so much that we came together again for —this time to talk about planning.
Planning often takes more time and effort than the actual execution...no one wants that. And I’ve heard so many product leaders say that “planning is broken.” So as we sat down to decide the topic of our Config talk this year, Figma’s CPO, Yuhki Yamashita, and I decided to study how world-class teams approach planning.
We shared our insights—as well as teams’ unique rituals—that will hopefully help “unbreak” planning at your company. And if you’re intrigued (and/or confused?) about why planning is WOOOOOOOOOW... here’s a hint: count the number of O’s. :)
Watch the video, read the script, and take a peek behind the scenes at how we used Figma Slides to put everything together.
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