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Posted onJanuary 4, 2021January 4, 2021Frameworks

Career Choices in the Wisdom Economy

One of the most significant problems that the next generation will have to deal with is one created by extremely long life spans: People who…

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Posted onDecember 8, 2020December 8, 2020Life Lessons

We Are Not Doing OK

Over Sunday brunch I finally admitted to a friend that I was not doing OK. And then he admitted back to me that neither was…

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Posted onDecember 5, 2020December 5, 2020Pop Culture

The Unbearable Lightness of The Undoing

To say that I was stoked about The Undoing is an understatement. David E Kelley is a master storyteller whose work I have been enjoying…

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Posted onNovember 13, 2020November 13, 2020Frameworks

Difficulty Curves in Games – Lessons for Product Builders

A young girl wakes up in a daze.  “Where is everyone?”  She walks out of her room and searches her house. Her family is missing.…

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Posted onJuly 8, 2020July 8, 2020Fiction

The Fire Born

This is the second in a series of character origin stories from the Mahabharat. They never gave her a name.  She was her kingdom’s princess.…

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Posted onJuly 2, 2020July 2, 2020Fiction

The Bird Prince

This is the first in a series of character origin stories from the Mahabharat.  A young prince and his father, the king, are locked up…

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Posted onJune 22, 2020June 22, 2020Learning

38 Lessons over 38 Years

No sudden wisdom has dawned on me. No life-altering epiphanies. Birthdays come and birthdays go. This will be just another day and the start of…

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Posted onApril 23, 2020April 23, 2020Frameworks

Exit Cost in Products

A lot has been written about defensibility and moats in businesses. Strategists talk about barriers to entry (resources, patentable technology and processes, expertise, capital) in…

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Posted onMarch 26, 2020March 27, 2020Frameworks

The Product Managers of the Mahabharat

Over a meeting, someone recently asked me to describe the archetype of a product leader. While I answered the question, a broader thought stayed with…

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Posted onFebruary 24, 2020February 24, 2020Story Stack

Here be Dragons

This is the second in a series of essays focused on the future of storytelling: the “Story Stack”. The first one was on the movie…

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Posted onFebruary 19, 2020February 19, 2020Frameworks

The Possession – Awareness Quadrant – the Evolution

I recently shared the Possession-Awareness Quadrant framework with a hall full of PMs in the form of a 20-minutes-long talk followed by a quick Q&A…

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Posted onFebruary 5, 2020February 24, 2020Story Stack

Cut to the Chase

I am working on a series of essays focused on the future of storytelling: the “Story Stack” – an entire ecosystem that I see developing…

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