2020-01-04
A Decade of Product Management
Reflections on the last decade of product management and predictions for the next.
2019-12-05
So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?
For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of Stack Overflow. I’m still going on some customer calls… Read more "So,...
2019-10-31
Prioritization Shouldn't Be Hard
Discover & share this TLC GIF with everyone you know. GIPHY is how you search, share, discover, and create GIFs. A while ago, I was interviewing a VP of Product...
2019-09-24
Welcome, Prashanth!
Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who… Read more "Welcome,...
2019-07-25
Startup School - How to talk to users
2025 Note - I based this off the Mom Test , written by a fellow YC founder. Interestingly enough - if you look at the products I build…
2019-07-19
Product Operations: The Fuel for Winning Product Strategies
46.8% of product decision makers cite lack of quality data as the main challenge they make when making decisions and only 21.9% always or almost always use data to back...
2019-03-28
The next CEO of Stack Overflow
We’re looking for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. I’m stepping out of the day-to-day and up to the role of Chairman of the Board. Read more "The next CEO...
2019-02-23
Distributed Logical Time
A simple, decentralized, scalable, constant-memory mechanism for independent replicas to record events in time, preserving the "happened-before" relation in almost all cases.
2018-10-12
Startup School - A Conversation on Hard Tech
2025 Note - good convo with Adora for Startup School
2018-10-04
Introducing the CPO Accelerator
I’m very excited to announce a new division of Produx Labs, specifically focused on growing future Chief Product Officers for growth stage companies.In late March of 2018, Shelley Perry of ...
2018-07-09
Hardware Founders: (When) Should You Try To Raise VC Money?
If you choose to raise any amount of venture capital investment you are making an implicit agreement with your investor that your aim is to…
2018-05-03
Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams
New product: Stack Overflow for Teams lets you direct questions to members of your own team, company, or organization. Read more "Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams"
2018-04-23
Strange and maddening rules
There's this popular idea among developers that when you face a problem with code, you should get out a rubber duck and explain, to the duck, exactly how your code...
2018-04-13
A Dusting of Gamification
I had to think for a minute to realize that Stack Overflow has “gamification" too. Not a ton. Maybe a dusting of gamification, most of it around reputation. Read more...
2018-04-04
Podcast: How to Think Like a Product Manager
I was very excited to be on Roadmunk's podcast talking about Product Institute and how we teach Product Managers to think. The key takeaway is: it's not a linear process....
2017-12-29
Please Try.
“What have you tried to fix that problem?” Over the past year, I’ve spent most of my time working with Product Managers, UX Designers, and Leadership of companies going through...
2017-09-23
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Stakeholders
When I first started in Product Management, I was told that my job was to keep my stakeholders happy. My stakeholders were members of the sales team. I understand that...
2017-09-19
What working on Pebble taught me about building hardware
Building hardware is fun but tough. We worked on Pebble for a full four years before we launched on Kickstarter in 2012. We went on to sell…
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