Channel minimization
As a child I recall falling asleep staring at my night light. An array of yellow-orange light beams danced through liquid eyelids. They were the closest thing to a connection I knew. I was thinking about this as I dozed …
Product Management
Making my bed
I’ve heard people say it’s good to make your bed. I figured I’d take this advice literally. So, I made my bed.
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Finish your work
I recently read “Scrum” and several points hit home. In reflecting on my own intellectual and creative pursuits. While I’ve been doing product for well over a decade now there are definitely areas of continued improvement that are needed.
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…Sublime moments
Today I reviewed my year. I stared at the sheet of paper - a ledger weighing the good and the bad. As I stared at the page, a question: how many sublime moments did I have? So I added a …
Notes on quality
We often think of quality as embedded within a product. Does the product have the capabilities and craftsmanship I would expect? Is it well built? Does it function well? Those all matter, of course. But quality is as much in …
When to show your work?
Holding onto work too long leads to stagnation, like part of a river branch flowing into a dead end swamp.
A good outcome for showing work is either some fundamental flaw is exposed or tweaks suggested to optimize it. Either …
Enable us to pull
This is what a product manager (any great leader) must do. This is a deceptively simple phrase but there a lot packed in it. This describes the what and the how and the why for achieving success as a team …
A taxonomy of exhaustion
There are several flavors of exhaustion. Here’s the taxonomy.
Exhaustion by going shallow
This is my enemy. This is what I’ve been doing the past few days as I onboard at a new company (oh, I’m now at Facebook!). But …