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What Others Tell You Is The Wrong Solution

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As a product manager, it’s kind of beaten into us from the early days that you should never listen to your customers for solutions. Yet, it’s common to see the opposite.

A New PowerToys Awake Is Out

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The new PowerToys are out (we’re at version 0.70.0) and with it comes a new version of Awake, the caffeinate tool that folks are used to on a Mac, brought to life on Windows.

Recipes For Product Failure: Obsess Over Competitors

·1068 words
If product management was ever perfected and applied evenly to every single company and industry, we’d likely swim in products that solve all our problems. Unfortunately, good product management is unevenly distributed and often takes on patterns and practices that are very far from optimal.

Motherboard On The Wall

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Last year I was upgrading my computer’s power supply unit (PSU) in an effort to prepare for the GeForce RTX 3090. It so happened that I swapped PSU manufacturers as well while I was at it.

First Explorations of Twitter Verification API

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Twitter just announced that they are re-launching their verification program, and now you can check whether you are eligible directly from your Twitter account settings. Neat!

Careers Are Not Marathons Or Sprints

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Not too long ago, I was reading Charlie Kindel’s “You’re Thinking of Your Career Trajectory Wrong” and it reminded me of yet another trope that somehow is very commonplace, at least in the tech industry - your career is not a sprint, it’s a marathon.

Joining Netlify

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Taking the next step in my professional career.