Reading
We've got decades and decades of career left. This gets much less intimidating when you have a sense of how and when to change the work we do. Peter Drecker's Managing Oneself provides provoking questions on precisely this...
Reading
The most recent gap I discovered in my PM skillset was around developing and articulating a strategy in different product areas. I was recommended Good Strategy Bad Strategy to help out. It didn't disappoint...
Product
Product management can be a frustratingly broad field. There are a seemingly endless number of mental "muscles" to train at any given time. From strategy to research to prioritization to execution...
Reflection
Happy new year! It’s time for another annual review in which I look back on how the last 365 days turned out for me. I'll follow a similar structure as last year's review with these two prompts...
Life
Reading and writing about awareness has always felt shallow to me. Personally, the only times in which I’ve truly appreciated awareness are when I find myself experiencing it firsthand...
Life
Another birthday has come and gone. On paper, things look similar to where I was last year. Mentally, things feel much different. There are things that gnaw at me of course, but I’m more content than I have been in a while...
Thinking
From my distant perspective into academia, it seems that theory is something of a holy grail in published papers. Presenting novel information is interesting. Being able to explain why that information looks the way it does is better...
Life
I’ve found that the one of the most important relationships for our happiness and productivity is that of our relationship with time. It can quickly turn into a sour one. I know it has for me in the past...
Data Science
I’ve been kicking around this notion of exploratory vs. explanatory data viz. Despite what most BI tools might have you think, not all data viz is created equal. The charts that we cobble together often have different goals...
Data Science
“Figma for X” might not be as common a startup trope as “Uber for X” but it’s definitely catching up over the last few years. My main beef with catchphrases like these are how often they get thrown around without any context...
Data Science
Maintaining dashboards and analytics is hard and only gets harder as you further delve into the world of self-serve analytics. This makes sense. More stuff being created means more stuff that can break or slip between the cracks...
Data Science
Self-serve analytics is a tough game to win at. Lots of companies aspire to “do self-serve” in order to reduce the load on their analytics and data science teams, but few succeed. This doesn’t mean that we’re hopeless...