Teaching is in my blood (actually, in my professional background too), and writing is pedagogy.

Here are some published articles, as well as highlights from occasional bouts of blogging.

How to catch ChatGPT in a lie

Generative AI like LLMs lie confidently. Look for these tells.

April 26, 2023
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ChatGPT rewrites Harry Potter but it's product managers

Did it get this by scraping a million resumes?

April 16, 2023
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The RACI Matrix: a product manager's BFF?

A simple and powerful project mangement tool that can save an initiative, and/or your sanity.

April 04, 2023
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Inspire the troops with a Product Rallying Cry

A fill-in-the-blanks format for a concise and motivational product vision statement. [Interactive]

March 20, 2023
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Kier Eagan on product management

Kier Eagan, the fictional cultist/founder from Severance, has a lot to say to product managers.

March 16, 2023
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Escape the Applicant Trapping System

Tips to get your resume in front of human eyeballs by getting past the applicant tracking system (ATS).

March 13, 2023
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Conjoint, Maxdiff, and AHP

Software product managers can borrow these research techniques from the consumer packaged goods world.

April 06, 2020
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A Contrarian's Guide To Agile Transformation

Slides for a talk I gave at ProductTank Austin on the tricky interface of PdM and agile engineering.

April 29, 2019
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Me in Austin Voice Of Product

[external post] I appeared in Reza Shirazi's Austin VOP interview series.

February 19, 2018
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4 human biases to fix in ML

[external post] AI is built by humans; data scientists who understand all 4 types of bias will produce better models and better training data.

October 26, 2018
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The scary truth about enterprise AI

[external post] In the spirit of Halloween, let's focus on something really scary: over half of enterprise AI projects fail.

October 29, 2018
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Just for fun: On Cooked Cookies

A tongue-in-cheek piece about cookies and whether they should be cooked. (Spoiler: they should.)

June 30, 2015
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Great documentation and the TRS-80 CoCo

When I was a kid, the TRS-80 Color Computer blew my mind, but what really changed my life were the books that came with it. Where pedagogy and wonder meet, magic happens. What lessons can we take from this today?

July 28, 2014
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