Words from the road and the terminal
Technical articles, personal essays, and dispatches from wherever I happen to be. Writing is how I understand what I think.
Beyond these pages, I write a fortnightly newsletter that breaks down software architecture, highlights curated tools, and shares behind-the-scenes updates from my work and travels.
Subscribe to my newsletterDid you know an average adult makes 35000 decisions per day? The number is outrageous. We choose what time to get out of bed, to snooze or not to snooze the…
August 31, 2021
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants - Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke in 1676 (age 34) Leaders are people…
August 30, 2021
Experimentation is the act of testing out a hypothesis about a product. I have been reading the Lean Startup by Eric Ries and a concept that stands out is the…
August 29, 2021
Influence in product management is persuading others that your product vision is the right one. How Humans Deal With Persuasion Approach One: Natural,…
August 28, 2021
To build a product that solves a real-world problem and has an impact on the users is to first understand how the users are using the product. To understand…
August 27, 2021
A product manager acts as a representative of the user in the production process. This means that product managers need to be actively in sync with our users…
August 26, 2021
Consumers have needs and wants. Needs are things that consumers cannot live without while wants are secondary items that humans can live without. Through the…
August 25, 2021
A sprint is a short time period which a scrum team takes to complete a specific task. Scrums use sprints to manage projects which allow the teams to produce…
August 24, 2021
Scrum is continuously shipping value to customers. Scrum and agile are mainly thought of as the same though they are very different. Scrum is a framework for…
August 23, 2021
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