Late last year, I had recorded a podcast with Vani Kola of Kalaari Capital. We discussed many different topics – what make a good PM,…
The MVP is dead. The Minimum Viable Product philosophy has become corrupted. We have misunderstood its intent and diluted its core elements over the years.…
To say that I have followed an unconventional path to becoming a product manager is a little bit of an understatement. Engineering → Writing →…
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.…
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…
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…
I have been going through a friend’s notes from his favourite classes at NYU’s Stern business school. The notes from Professor Glenn Okun’s classes stand…
People who build products and run them live learn some lessons the hard way. For example: speed and haste are not to be confused with…
Recently, I was talking to a technologist I greatly admire about different approaches to problem-solving and product development. His argument (which I strongly agreed with)…
Growing up – all the way to engineering school and beyond – I was obsessed with mathematical modelling and statistics. The ability to model (correctly)…
I saw the Jon Favreau movie Chef the other night. Jon Favreau plays a celebrated chef called Carl Casper, who after receiving a particularly nasty…