•Product
A product manager's 24 reflections on 2024
and how to use tarot cards for sprint planning.
My Articles
Thoughts on AI, product management, and the intersection of technology and healthcare
•AI
SeqRAG - Agents for the Rest of Us
Building Faster, More Reliable Agents with Sequential Retrieval-Augmented Generation
•Product
The dangers of Product Longtermism
There are no guarantees the future will hold the same values as us, so what right do we have to encode ours upon them?
•Product
A product manager’s 56 best (and stolen) insights from 2021
If you’re reading this, it means I succeeded in my mission to the future. What follows is a human year’s worth of data condensed into minutes.
•Product
Your Best Creative Work Is Just a Cognitive Walk Away
Doing our best creative work sometimes means tricking ourselves into leaving our minds alone. Here are six things to try while walking to achieve this.
•Product
The curse of success
Failure may be the most important part of the human experience. So why not run towards it?
•Product
Brainwashed by design
“All you young people are brainwashed by design”, calmly provoked my neighbour. Not quite the reaction I expected after proudly showing off my renovated bathroom.
•Product
How do you inspire your engineering team?
We don’t deserve the team we can’t inspire. Camaraderie, purpose, and appreciation need to be our priorities.
•Product Management
‘Working Backwards’ to finally make remote work… work
How Amazonian thinking and communication tools are turning me into a remote work optimist.
•product management
Ideas I copied to help steal more ideas
Stealing ideas doesn’t have to result in imposter syndrome. If anything, copying helps reveal our most authentic selves.
•Communication
How to Earn the Right to Argue
Designing an argument to inspire a change of perspective.
•Team
Team Names Are Not That Important
But by employing humour they can bring joy to the workplace and sometimes even make statements.
•complexity
Stepping out of disorder
Our attitude to complexity is what determines our autonomy.
•Philosophy
The Case Against Simplicity
The Pursuit of Simplicity Only Serves to Manufacture Our Consent, Not Our Understanding.
•product management
A product manager’s reflections for a better 2021
“Difficulty is what wakes up the genius” has become my mantra of 2020 (thanks Nassim Taleb). If that's true then what follows should be pure gold: a collection of my best reflections for a challenging year.
•Personal
My Tech, Books, Games, Apps and Movie Picks of 2020
No affiliate links. No financial incentives. Just my own beautiful biases for the best picks of 2020.
•product management
How product managers should understand users
The limited ways we have been taught to interpret the world also limits our ability to understand our users. Nobody has taught me how to do this, so I decided to explore some solutions.
•productivity
Building a Second Brain for Productivity
Today we operate from a basis of knowledge, confidence and creativity to pull together insights and build successful products. Here, I want to share how creating a personal note-taking system can act as a catalyst for connecting knowledge and ideas that will save you time, enhance problem-solving and boost creative thought.
•Product Management
Luck vs skill in determining product success
Is 10x product success merely arbitrary luck or based on merit? It’s a question that can torture even the most rational-minded product managers. But which should you focus on when victory is on the line?
•Product Management
A product manager’s guide for difficult conversations
How I structure difficult conversations that help my team build products and tackle internal politics.
•Health
9 Coronavirus Research Trends using LDA and Topic Modelling
Inspired by all the COVID-19 pre-print research being made publicly available, I wanted to apply some data science skills and see if any trends were emerging. There were a few surprises.
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•Health
The Coronavirus Outbreak So Far and Why It's So Concerning [Comic]
The Coronavirus outbreak has been dominating headlines for the last few weeks. I am growing concerned with the increasing amount of panic...
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•Health
Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Ageing, and Disease [Comic]
I read an amazing NEJM review paper on the health impact of intermittent fasting over Christmas and really wanted to share its findings in an accessible way. What better way to do that than with a cartoon cat professor!
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•Health
An Evidence-Based Guide to Nootropics and Cognitive Enhancement [Comic]
After years of listening to people preach misinformed rubbish about nootropics and cognitive enhancement, I decided to do the responsible thing and write a comic to preach myself.
•Politics
Dinnertime After Brexit: Seven No-Deal Recipes
What does a no-deal Brexit diet look, and more importantly, taste like?
•Experiments
Using Mendeley data to discover academic papers
I have a continuous fear of not staying informed. My reasoning is selfish - I want to know if there are academic papers out there I could…
•Product
Product Market Fit of the Mac Pro
The difference between the trash-can Mac Pro and the recently announced 2019 Mac Pro in terms of product/market fit is a classic exercise in the lean canvas.
•Product
The China Tech Cold War From A Product Perspective
The ongoing U.S.-Chinese trade war represents a troubling reversal of decades of globalisation. One of the recent prominent victims is the…
•Business
Third Wave Disruption of the Italian Coffee Market
It's impossible to ignore Italy's innovations in coffee, but like all innovation growth curves, at some point disruption will come.
•Business
Your Genome As a Service (GaaS) — AncestryDNA, 23andMe and More
Imagine finding your birth mother after 47 years or discovering that you’re related to a president. This is the promise of private DNA services.
•Experiments
Why I Built A Historical Cryptocurrency Trade Simulator (which you can use too)
I got into trading crypto around May 2017 after about a year of regular investing in a range of peer2peer (P2P) systems, commodities and…