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 ...
Oops scenarios in meetings
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...
Why is it that…
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...
Travel blues
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 ...
Remember when?
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 ...
Huge backlog of blog postings
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...
Cars with primer on the road
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
What is worse …
than driving behind a Hybrid car that is "hyper-miling"*? Following behind an ginormous SUV hyper-miling. Seriously, you bought a 12MPG land yacht, so why do you try to stretch your gas milage to 13MPG by taking 1/2 mile to get to 35 MPH? Seriousl...
Irrational response to prices
As I was bombarded with yet another sales manager grumbling about prices being too high (we are the market leader, and if we lower our price, all our competitors will match), it dawned on me that prices bring out irrational behavior. A classic exa...
Long week.
Well, this was a grueling week. Our thrice a year extended management team meetings happened, and I had two (interlinked) updates to present. It all went well, but it was a couple of 10 hour days of meetings, a seriously draining week. Now, I am h...