The Humane AI Pin: A Case Study in Poor Strategy and Poor ExecutionThe Humane AI Pin is a wearable voice controlled device with a digital assistant that aims to replace your smartphone for a number of…Apr 24, 20243964Apr 24, 20243964
Disruption Comes to GoogleThe tech industry is extremely dynamic and the only constant is change. Companies that once appeared to be invulnerable can be regularly…Mar 3, 20245.9K110Mar 3, 20245.9K110
5 Things I Learned About Leadership from the Death & Rebirth of MicrosoftIn 2007 Paul Graham, the founder of Y-Combinator, penned an essay titled Microsoft is Dead. The thesis of the article was that Microsoft…Feb 4, 20247.8K158Feb 4, 20247.8K158
The Difference Between a bunch of APIs and a Platform“A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it, exceeds the value of the company that creates it. Then it’s a platform.”…Jun 16, 20213381Jun 16, 20213381
Privacy is Like an ElephantThe story of the blind men and the elephant tells a visual story of how humans can perceive the same thing very differently based on their…May 30, 20212524May 30, 20212524
Wired is Wrong: The problem with social media isn’t ads, the real problem is right there in the…This morning wired published an article titled YES, BIG PLATFORMS COULD CHANGE THEIR BUSINESS MODELS which argues that ad driven business…Dec 18, 20182122Dec 18, 20182122
This Time isn’t Different: The Facebook Era isn’t OverI was recently called out on Twitter for dismissing this post titled The Facebook Era is Over which pointed to a number of trends working…Nov 17, 201841Nov 17, 201841
Strong Opinions, Weakly Held: Lessons from Mark Zuckerberg & Steve JobsI’ve often seen the phrase “strong opinions, weakly held” used to indicate both a focused approach to achieving an outcome but also…Nov 2, 201811Nov 2, 201811
Growth at any Cost: Social Media has Made the World a Worse Place, Here’s How To Fix ItDan McComas, former head of product at Reddit, gave a very candid interview about why he thinks modern social media sites like Reddit have…Oct 14, 20181141Oct 14, 20181141
A Plan for Eliminating Toxic Users on Twitter using Artificial Intelligence & TrustworthinessTwitter as a service is widely known for the toxic behavior of a subset of its users. In addition, the company has done a worse job than…Aug 22, 201859Aug 22, 201859
The Secret of Product Management: Decide What You Care About, Set Goals, Measure, RepeatI recently tweeted the following advice for Twitter’s leadership and thought it was worth expanding on in a blog post.Aug 18, 20183Aug 18, 20183
Facebook Makes First Real Move to Curtail Abusive Ad Targeting on their PlatformToday I was pleasantly surprised to see Facebook announced plans crackdown on ad targeting by email without consent. For people in the ad…Apr 1, 2018Apr 1, 2018
Impact vs Scope: Some Thoughts on Steve Yegge Leaving Google and How to Retain your Best PeopleThis morning I read Steve Yegge’s post on why he left Google to join Grab. If you read the post in it’s entirety it seems to contain a…Jan 24, 20182Jan 24, 20182
Published inHackerNoon.comPsychological Safety, Risk Tolerance and High Functioning Software TeamsA few years ago, Google decided to research what was the key ingredient that made some software teams at the company more successful than…Dec 30, 2017Dec 30, 2017
Product Management Lessons: How Apple avoided an iPhone recall with a software fixDuring the past year, Apple came up with a software fix to a hardware problem which has been reported in the news as they slow down old…Dec 26, 2017Dec 26, 2017
Twitter Verification: A Case Study in Product Management Failure and How to Fix itThe Problem with Verified Users on TwitterNov 16, 20171Nov 16, 20171
Facebook-Russia news cycle driven by media wanting Facebook to pick winnersThis morning I was reading an article on Buzzfeed titled How People Inside Facebook are Reacting to the Company’s Election Crises and I was…Oct 21, 2017Oct 21, 2017
Why A.I. Failed: Facebook Hiring a Thousand Humans to Review AdsRecently Facebook’s Chief Security Officer posted a series of tweets defending the company’s actions after the Facebook was criticized for…Oct 8, 2017Oct 8, 2017
Product Management Lessons: How Medium replacing ❤️ with 👏has made the product much worseRecently Medium announced a key change in how users interact with their product in a blog post titled Show authors more ❤️ with…Aug 23, 20178Aug 23, 20178
The Big Lie of the Google Employee’s Anti-Diversity Manifesto: Biology is why Women…Over the weekend, a 10-page document that had been making it’s way internally within Google was published by Gizmodo that argued against…Aug 6, 201785Aug 6, 201785
