A few months back, I wrote a post entitled “The Why, What, and How of the Modern Product Team.” It was fairly well received, but one of my readers suggested that I answer the “When.” This is a tricky topic, because I don’t think there is any one correct answer. …

In meeting its goal of solving problems by building new products and features¹, the modern product team has to answer three important questions. Why, as in “Why is this a problem and for whom?” What, as in “What do I need to build to solve that problem for my target…

Quite some time ago, your engineering team started working on a project, and it’s still not finished several months later. You have no idea when the the team is going to deliver, and it’s possible that you don’t even know exactly what they are going to deliver. …

Last week, OnlyFans announced they would boot all porn off of their platform as of October 1, which predictably started an uproar on the Internet. For those not familiar with OnlyFans, it is a platform that allows content creators to sell content directly to their fans and to virtually engage…

Death is a tricky thing to think about. On one level, I know objectively that some day I will die. I have done a lot of Buddhist meditation, and am familiar with the teaching that we all will grow old and die. Even though I’m an optimist about technology, I…

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released the final draft of their latest report, so I decided to take a look at it. Their conclusion: we are most definitely seeing the effects of climate change, and these effects will continue to worsen. If we do manage to make major…

This week I finished reading two very different books; Limits to Growth¹ by Donella Meadows at al and The Beginning of Infinity² by David Deutsch. Initially I thought there was no connection between the two books, as I started reading them at different times and under completely different circumstances. However…

Some time ago, I came across User Story Mapping by Jeff Patton while looking for books about customer discovery. So I ordered a copy, and while it wasn’t exactly a light read, I finally made it all the way through and figured I would share some of what I learned…

It seems like every time Bitcoin crashes down from a new height, some people predict that the “bitcoin bubble” is over, while simultaneously there is a chorus of people saying HODL (crypto geek speak for “hold”). …