There are thousands of news stories every day. More than any news publication or news hour could possibly cover. Car crashes, robberies, heroic feats, international skirmishes, sporting events, political battles, […]
What’s the Controversy Over the Facebook Social Contagion Study?
A lot of people are up in arms about a research study that was published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). I’m […]
Just Enough Statistics to Get the Product Job Done
Math is hard. I get it. Many of us continue to suffer from the false belief that we are incapable of doing math. I’m going to leave that alone, as […]
If You Don’t Get This One Thing Right, All Your Product Research and Experiments Won’t Matter.
The report is wrong. This was the last thing I wanted to hear. It was March or April of 2013. We had launched Explore at AfterCollege a couple of months […]
How to Cultivate Curiosity and Build Better Products
Imagine you are sitting in a meeting. You are in the middle of a heated debate with your head of sales. A customer is adamant they need a feature in […]
How to Develop Product Expertise
How do you evaluate how someone will contribute to a product team? How do you develop your own skills to ensure that you are contributing the most to your product […]
The Challenges of Releasing Early and Often
Have you ever rolled out a major product change while one of your sales reps was demo’ing your product to a prospect? I have. It wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t a […]
Drop Feature-Based Product Roadmaps
When I work on a product, I think about it all day long. I obsess over it. I love exploring the long view. What will this product look like next […]
