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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