https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog Articles on product management, AI, healthcare technology, and more by Adrian Raudaschl. en-gb Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:31:40 GMT https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/the-accountability-gap https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/the-accountability-gap Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI makes it easy to produce work. The harder question is whether anyone is willing to own it. On delegation, abdication, and the practice of knowing what you actually think. AI https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/a-product-managers-48-reflections-on-2025 https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/a-product-managers-48-reflections-on-2025 Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT and why I've been making Bob Dylan songs about Sonic the Hedgehog Product Management https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/a-product-managers-24-reflections-on-2024 https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/a-product-managers-24-reflections-on-2024 Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT and how to use tarot cards for sprint planning. Product Management https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/seqrag-agents-for-the-rest-of-us https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/seqrag-agents-for-the-rest-of-us Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT Building Faster, More Reliable Agents with Sequential Retrieval-Augmented Generation AI https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/forget-rag-the-future-is-rag-fusion https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/forget-rag-the-future-is-rag-fusion Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT The Next Frontier of Search: Retrieval Augmented Generation meets Reciprocal Rank Fusion and Generated Queries. AI https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/the-dangers-of-product-longtermism https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/the-dangers-of-product-longtermism Mon, 31 Jan 2022 08:14:07 GMT 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 Management https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/a-product-managers-56-best-and-stolen-insights-from-2021 https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/a-product-managers-56-best-and-stolen-insights-from-2021 Fri, 24 Dec 2021 11:43:24 GMT 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 Management https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/your-best-creative-work-is-just-a-cognitive-walk-away https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/your-best-creative-work-is-just-a-cognitive-walk-away Wed, 01 Dec 2021 18:03:36 GMT 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 Management https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/the-curse-of-success https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/the-curse-of-success Mon, 01 Nov 2021 18:24:17 GMT Failure may be the most important part of the human experience. So why not run towards it? Product Management https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/brainwashed-by-design https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/brainwashed-by-design Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:33:11 GMT “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 Management https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/how-do-you-inspire-your-engineering-team https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/how-do-you-inspire-your-engineering-team Mon, 09 Aug 2021 19:38:08 GMT We don’t deserve the team we can’t inspire. Camaraderie, purpose, and appreciation need to be our priorities. Product Management https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/posts/working-backwards-to-finally-make-remote-work-work/ https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/posts/working-backwards-to-finally-make-remote-work-work/ Mon, 12 Jul 2021 21:25:26 GMT How Amazonian thinking and communication tools are turning me into a remote work optimist. Product Management https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/ideas-i-copied-to-help-steal-more-ideas/ https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/ideas-i-copied-to-help-steal-more-ideas/ Wed, 12 May 2021 13:38:00 GMT Stealing ideas doesn’t have to result in imposter syndrome. If anything, copying helps reveal our most authentic selves. Product Management https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/how-to-earn-the-right-to-argue https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/how-to-earn-the-right-to-argue Wed, 14 Apr 2021 18:59:41 GMT Designing an argument to inspire a change of perspective. Communication https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/tactical-humor-for-work-and-pleasure https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/tactical-humor-for-work-and-pleasure Tue, 16 Mar 2021 11:55:08 GMT But by employing humour they can bring joy to the workplace and sometimes even make statements. Team https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/posts/stepping-out-of-disorder https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/posts/stepping-out-of-disorder Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:10:40 GMT Our attitude to complexity is what determines our autonomy. Philosophy https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/the-case-against-simplicity https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/the-case-against-simplicity Thu, 04 Feb 2021 20:57:03 GMT The Pursuit of Simplicity Only Serves to Manufacture Our Consent, Not Our Understanding. Philosophy https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/a-product-managers-reflections-for-a-better-2021 https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/a-product-managers-reflections-for-a-better-2021 Tue, 22 Dec 2020 12:08:51 GMT “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. Product Management https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/best-tech-book-games-apps-movies-and-i-used-in-2020 https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/best-tech-book-games-apps-movies-and-i-used-in-2020 Tue, 15 Dec 2020 18:30:41 GMT No affiliate links. No financial incentives. Just my own beautiful biases for the best picks of 2020. Personal https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/how-product-managers-should-understand-users https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/how-product-managers-should-understand-users Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:28:04 GMT 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. Product Management https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/building-a-second-brain-for-product-management https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/building-a-second-brain-for-product-management Wed, 12 Aug 2020 19:23:56 GMT 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. Productivity https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/exploring-the-impact-of-luck-in-product-management https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/exploring-the-impact-of-luck-in-product-management Tue, 07 Jul 2020 21:20:40 GMT 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 https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/a-product-managers-guide-for-difficult-conversations https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/a-product-managers-guide-for-difficult-conversations Tue, 17 Mar 2020 23:10:44 GMT How I structure difficult conversations that help my team build products and tackle internal politics. Product Management https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/summarising-the-latest-research-on-coronavirus-with-nlp-and-topic-modelling https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/summarising-the-latest-research-on-coronavirus-with-nlp-and-topic-modelling Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:29:58 GMT 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. AI https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/the-coronavirus-outbreak-so-far-and-why-its-so-concerning-comic https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/the-coronavirus-outbreak-so-far-and-why-its-so-concerning-comic Sun, 09 Feb 2020 20:09:38 GMT The Coronavirus outbreak has been dominating headlines for the last few weeks. I am growing concerned with the increasing amount of panic... Health https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/effects-of-intermittent-fasting-on-health-ageing-and-disease-comic https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/effects-of-intermittent-fasting-on-health-ageing-and-disease-comic Wed, 29 Jan 2020 19:22:07 GMT 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! Health https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/nootropics-and-cognitive-enhancement https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/nootropics-and-cognitive-enhancement Sun, 24 Nov 2019 20:36:42 GMT 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. Health https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/dinnertime-after-brexit-seven-no-deal-recipes https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/dinnertime-after-brexit-seven-no-deal-recipes Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:58:25 GMT What does a no-deal Brexit diet look, and more importantly, taste like? Politics https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/weekend-project-building-a-chrome-app-to-discover-cool-academic-papers https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/weekend-project-building-a-chrome-app-to-discover-cool-academic-papers Mon, 14 Oct 2019 17:19:18 GMT 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… AI https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/product-market-fit-of-the-mac-pro https://adrianraudaschl.com/blog/product-market-fit-of-the-mac-pro Wed, 19 Jun 2019 18:03:51 GMT 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 Management