Category: Product Marketing

One of my takeaways from a recent episode of Hidden Brain was the story about a young doctor who couldn’t keep up until she started to make time for herself. And once she did, she was able to actually get more done (and at a higher quality) as a doctor. Apparently, I have been doing the “before”…

Written in 2019 BEFORE lockdown There are many formal and research-based articles and essays about working from home (#wfh) — Its advantages, disadvantages, and the kinds of people and roles that are suited for wfh. This essay isn’t one of those. It’s just a story with a “sample of one.” Your mileage may vary.

Two market crashes ago, I was a Senior Product Manager at a really cool startup founded by some genius MIT folks. An innocuous phone call came in to our marketing manager, a non-specific request from a mid-level person. Someone wanting to speak with our Product Manager. Our marketing manager gave me the number and the…

When I was very young, I remember my grandmother interceding in a heated financial argument between my parents by loudly lamenting “get rid of that damn calculator, it’s ruining everything!” That’s the earliest example I can remember when a tool, rightly or wrongly, jammed up a process. I’m pretty sure that the calculator didn’t give…

Our emotional product manager, product marketer, and content marketer brains want to have high quality, effective, extensively leveraged content and programs that come in under budget (or have trivial budget). We want it all.

Without biological diversity, a fish tank will not thrive and all life will die. (And if it doesn’t die, it will certainly not thrive.)