Another Memorial Day is here and it is always a time of reflection for me. I’ve written on it several years the past. Yes, I have friends who died serving in wars with me.Yes, we lost those wars. And now I have friends who served alongside me whose families continue to be at risk from …
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Please give this a listen or watch?
Hi there, could you please do me a favor and listen to this brief 40 minute talk? Or if you prefer video you could watch it? Then tell me what you think?
Brilliance in the Basics – Leadership in Product Management
In the ongoing iteration and re-iteration of what I’ve learned, how I communicate it, what I learn anew and how I convey it, we have another release. I was very lucky to get to speak on lessons in Product Management with Growth School. They kindly provided a recording link and password that I can share …
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Do good with your career! 80,000 hours
As I’ve shared before I’m driven by a personal mission in life: to grow powerful people: to learn and teach so that others can better survive and thrive through understanding knowledge! I’ve been very struck recently with the concepts of effective altruism, of doing good even better with careful consideration and measurement of impact. For …
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and the Twitterstorm
One thing is for sure, people care more about Multi-factor Authentication than most people would have thought. The (unending – but the latest) news about Twitter’s fast and likely ill considered changes continues. Right now they’re talking (and trending) about Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). In a nutshell, Twitter will be requiring anyone who wants to use …
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Doing Good, Better.
I’ve finally read Doing Good Better. And I couldn’t recommend it more highly. I wish I had read this years ago (like many books.) I’m sharing my review both here and where I wrote it on GoodReads. I also gave an intro to it and shared it on YouTube or sharing-ready on LinkedIn Who should …
What this Marine learns from Malala’s Children’s book: Malala’s Magic Pencil.
One voice can change the world. There are few books that choke me up and move me to tears. That cause a deep and aching sadness in me. There are even fewer children books that have this effect. Malala’s Magic Pencil is one of these. My oldest daughter has been getting more and more skilled …
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Strategy-Bot: Chat GPT
I asked Chat GPT to synthesize the competitive analysis frameworks that I have found most useful in my work as a Product Manager. It did a decent job of the summaries overall but made a critical error in part of its meta-analysis. Here’s what I think is the best it did: I’ll paste the full …
ChatGPT: cant chat for me (-yet on LinkedIn)
A good friend of mine raised an interesting point on LinkedIn: I drafted my genuine thoughts on the response, then fed that to Chat GPT to see if it could strengthen the point. Instead it made it more wordy, fluffy, omitted what I saw as the most insightful point, and took it in a few …
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Goodbye 2022, Hello 2023
Change of year reflections Instead of New Years resolutions or even advice for the year as Ive done before. I thought this year I would reflect some on things I did that have served me well, things I would like to do more of, and things that maybe I should leave behind as much as …