ChatGPT fixes your roadmap with financial modeling

Basic financial modeling with a conversational interface, and some surprises.

May 30, 2023
ai-ml fundamentals

How to catch ChatGPT in a lie

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

April 27, 2023
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ChatGPT rewrites Harry Potter but it's product managers

Did it get this by scraping a million resumes?

April 17, 2023
ai-ml fundamentals fun

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 5, 2023
fundamentals tools

Inspire the troops with a Product Rallying Cry

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

March 21, 2023
fundamentals tools

Kier Eagan on product management

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

March 17, 2023
fun

Escape the Applicant Trapping System

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

March 14, 2023
fundamentals

Conjoint, Maxdiff, and AHP

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

April 7, 2020
fundamentals marketing tools

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.

Oct. 30, 2018
ai-ml

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.

Oct. 27, 2018
ai-ml

Me in Austin Voice Of Product

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

Feb. 20, 2018
fundamentals

Four essentials of great 1:1 meetings

Regular one-on-one meetings are essential to properly running a team. Here are the four guidelines I use to make mine effective.

Sept. 6, 2016
people_management my_faves

On Cooked Cookies

For fun, I wrote an essay about cookies and whether they should be cooked. (Spoiler: they should.)

July 1, 2015
fun

Commerce at the speed of social

Slides from a lecture I gave at the Kellogg school in 2015 on social commerce.

April 30, 2015

The McKinsey Decision Journey and social marketing

Understand and measure the impact of digital communities on the counsumer decision journey.

Feb. 9, 2015
marketing

Empathy as a core value

Leading thinkers tell us that empathic behavior in business actually improves your bottom line. So, what does empathy mean in product management?

Feb. 5, 2015
fundamentals ux my_faves

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 29, 2014
fundamentals ux my_faves

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