Last week, I was chatting with a colleague, and I made an off the cuff comment that the day my life began to fall apart was the first day that I took a Product Management job. I was only half joking, and this week has given evidence to support the...
Lately, I have been watching a lot of classic TV series on Netflix Streaming. Lots of fun, although it did highlight that my cable modem is ancient and needs to be replaced with a DOCSIS 3.0 box, to prevent hiccups. One show that I have been cruis...
This morning I got my second crown. Both upper rear molars are now crowned. The first one I got ~ 20 years ago. I ate a hard candy and the tooth completely crumbled. Getting fitted for the crown was a bit arduous. Two impressions (before and after...
Talking about "Why people who make things should learn Chinese" and this snippet of a comment really got me smiling this AM. "I'm sure there was a time not long ago when the people of England and France were saying "Those Americans...we've got to ...
Today, while projecting for our iteration planning meeting, my google talk client popped up a notification on a new email with the title "Regarding the job opportunity xxx" Oops. Didn't really want the team to see that one. Sigh, one more applicat...
When you are joining a conference call, and you are prompted to speak your name and press pound or hash, you suddenly have to cough, sneeze, burp etc? Never fails...
I know that in a perfect world, all the presence and meeting tools would obviate the need for business travel. However, if you live in the real world, and you are a product manager, you realize that some significant fraction of your time needs to ...
If you had an early eveneing flight, and got done early, you could go to the airport and have a reasonable chance of flying home earlier on Standby? Yeah, those days are gone. Too full flights, and the mentality of nickel and diming passengers to ...
So many great topics that are languishing in my head: Marketing: Momentum is a bad thing - because we always have done it doesn't mean that we should continue in perpetuity Marketing/Product Management - Data - Use it to decide whether to continue...
Can we just drop the pretense? Cars with primer on the road. They are NEVER get a real coat of paint. They are destined to be rat cars until they hit the wrecker