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Story Time: Ambushed
Two instances where I walked into difficult situations. One where I was naive, and one where I was set up. They both imprinted important lessons on my brain
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Story Time: "I don't pay you enough" - Former Boss
A simple meeting is very stressful, but it is part of the job.
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Story Time: Learning the value of over-communicating
A production drop out caused a lot of chaos when i was a newish PM for a product. I didn't know what to do, but I over rotated to communicate as we handled the issues, a template I used over and over
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Story Time: When you win, you also lose
We won the business, but what did we bargain for?
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Story Time: A Really Bad Situation
Starting a series of posts relating events and activities from a 25+ year Product Management career. First up, a shit-storm with a capital 'S'
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Tech Idiocy
Techies, "engineers" and others deep into the tech stack often are myopic. Sometimes you need to call them out explicitly.
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What is it all for?
A swan song.
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The Future of Work?
The RTO resistance is fueling a trend to more contract work in the upper echelons and formerly sacrosanct realms of Tech. The shift is not going to be pain free, but it might turn out OK.
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Crypto and Product Management
As I look back to my fleeting awareness of crypto, I remain glad that I trusted my instincts. Sadly, too many people have lost money they couldn't afford chasing the dragon.
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Turning 58 - some thoughts
I have been blessed with a long career in product management, having seen many things, living through many transitions. I am glad I am not starting now.
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Those who get upset over DEI Programs
I have noticed an archetype of the people who are really upset about DEI (and "Woke"). Truth is, they out themselves quite blatantly
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Technocratic Product Management
Tools, compartmentalization, and process over knowledge is sweeping through product management. This is good, but also bad