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“The Team that Managed Itself” (Book Review)
Reading the back cover of “The Team that Managed Itself: A Story of Leadership” by Christina Wodtke there’s an interesting quote from Marty Cagan, internationally renown product management thinker and author: “In this new book, Christina has tackled what I consider the most important problem in the tech industry. Only a small fraction of product…
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Raycast (Product Review)
My summary of Raycast before using it – Raycast is a productivity tool, making it easy to search, launch programmes and run tasks. How does Raycast explain itself in the first minute? “Supercharged productivity” is Raycast’s key promise on their website. “Raycast is a blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher. It lets you complete tasks, calculate,…
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Learning about synthetic data
I recently heard Anjney Midha – General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz – talking about synthetic data. I could sense synthetic data has to do with AI, but not much more beyond that. So what does any self respecting product person do in such a situation?! Ask ChatGpT of course! My main takeaway from reading ChatGpT’s…
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My Product Management Toolkit (61): Zone of Possible Agreement
The best book on negotiation skills has to be “Never Split the Difference” by Chris Voss. Tactical empathy was one of my main takeaways from Never Split the Difference: understanding of the feelings and mindset of another in the moment as well as what sits behind those feelings. This understanding helps increase your influence and overcoming any…
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Generative AI and Tesler’s Law
We talk a lot about the new innovations enabled through generative AI, but we haven’t talked as much about how we expect users to interact with AI applications. Because of the more unpredictable nature of generative AI, user interfaces will shift from deterministic to probabilistic user interfaces. In mathematics, a deterministic mathematical model is meant…