📝 On Product Sense Interviews
I've been spending a good bit of time in the Product Manager interview cycle lately, and with that comes new games to learn. One recurring game that keeps coming back is the "Product Sense" interview...
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🔭 Learnings from 4 Years at Metabase
After 4 exciting years, I’m parting ways with Metabase. It’s been a fulfilling run, working with smart people to build the most delightful business intelligence tool out there while scaling the team from 25 → 100+ employees...
🙏 29 Principles for 29 Years
Today I turned 29 and this birthday has more of a “nothing” feeling than those before it. I don't quite have an answer for why that's the case. Maybe it's part of getting older. Maybe it's more stability in my day-to-day than in years past...
☯️ On Black and White Thinking
We often focus on the “right” way to do things, but just as important, is the “wrong” way to go about things. I’ve recently become much more aware of an anti-pattern that I keep running up against...
🌍 Notes on A Man Without a Country
A Man Without a Country is a collection of essays from author Kurt Vonnegut. It’s a short and informal read, like chatting with a friend over a cup of coffee, a friend with uniquely lighthearted and thoughtful views...
🙏 28 Principles for 28 Years
I turned 28 years old a few weeks ago. It feels simply alright. I’m both as grateful as ever, and things are as hard as ever. I’ve written some version of this post each year, for the last 6 years...
🚸 Proposal for a Less Common Career Path
There are a seemingly endless number of ways to make a living today. This optionality can paralyze young people, and rightfully so, as it all feels very permanent and important...
🙏 27 Principles for 27 Years
It’s that time of the year where I reflect on another trip around the sun. I’m turning 27 years old and unsurprisingly I don’t feel different than I did yesterday. But if I turn the clock back a year earlier, it does feel quite different now...
💭 Notes on Managing Oneself
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...
🧩 Notes on Good Strategy Bad Strategy
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...
🗺️ How to Navigate Ambiguous Projects
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...
📆 2022 Year in Review
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
🌊 This is Water
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
🙏 26 Principles for 26 Years
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
📜 Theory, Explained
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
⌛️ Meditations on Time
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
🗺 Exploratory vs. Explanatory Visualization
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
🎮 On Multiplayer Analytics
“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
🥫 The Dashboard Maintenance Problem
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 Building Blocks: A Spectrum
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...
Life
🧳 6 Months Digital Nomading: A Review
In the wake of the pandemic, more and more people have opted to go the digital nomad route. I find that everyone’s experience is a little different, so hearing others’ perspectives is valuable...
Reading
🎓 Notes on Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman recounts the experiences of Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist with endless stories of academic and non-academic adventures...
Data Science
🗃 Making Dashboards Suck Less
There has recently been a lot of chatter in the data community about dashboards. Most of which converge on some version of “dashboards suck but what else,” as Benn Stancil points out in Data is for Dashboards...
Reading
🐪 Notes on The Making of Prince of Persia
The Making of Prince of Persia outlines Jordan Mechner's journal entries describing how an idea progressed over time and eventually became a best-selling video game...