15 Mar 2024

More thoughts on LLM-powered search

Posted in Technology
More thoughts on LLM-powered search

Why I’m excited (and somewhat uneasy) about LLM-powered search. Voice search, in particular.

12 Feb 2024

Your dev team deserves a trophy wall

Posted in Product, Work

Amidst a vast sea of product management templates and best practices, here’s something that doesn’t get enough love: team trophy walls.

15 Dec 2023

Siri, ChatGPT, and the future of voice search

Posted in Technology
Siri, ChatGPT, and the future of voice search

Siri’s question-answering capabilities, why ChatGPT is so much better at answering general questions, how to access ChatGPT through Siri, and an optimistic bet on Siri in 2024.

29 Sep 2023

The Case Against Travel

Posted in Culture, Personal
The Case Against Travel

Thoughts on leisure travel, overconsumption, and becoming better than we are.

21 Jul 2023

Product debt

Posted in Product, Work

What it is, why it matters, and why the product community needs it as a concept.

26 Apr 2023

Product shouldn’t own the “what”

Posted in Product, Work

Why the phrase “product owns the what; engineering owns the how” is a poor way of clarifying ownership in software development.

4 Apr 2023

The Rolling Stone 500

Posted in Personal
The Rolling Stone 500

My experience listening to and reviewing Rolling Stone magazine’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time.”

2 Mar 2023

My Purple Year

Posted in Personal
My Purple Year

My personal quest to listen to (and review) all of Prince’s studio albums.

31 Jan 2023

How to build stronger relationships

Posted in Culture, Personal

On keeping in touch, strengthening relationships, and an app I never built.

8 May 2022

Snippets, May ’22

Posted in Culture

What caught my eyes/ears this spring.

28 Jul 2021

Snippets, July ’21

Posted in Culture

What’s caught my eyes/ears this summer.

29 Jun 2021

More inclusive, impactful company hackathons

Posted in Product, Startups, Work

Seven ways to take your hackathons from ordinary to excellent—lessons learned from seven hackathons at Stitch Labs.

23 Jun 2021

My most successful Lyft conversation pivot of all time

Posted in Personal

That time when the driver asked me whether I’d read the Bible.

13 Mar 2021

Consider the bagel

Posted in Personal
Consider the bagel

“What makes a good bagel?” I asked my wall clock.

10 Jan 2021

On gems and fluff

Posted in Culture, Personal

In a better world of content, it would be easier to avoid fluff and easier to find real gems.

2 Jan 2021

The Atlantic: How Mormons Became American

Posted in Culture

If you have any interest in the Church of Latter-Day Saints, McCay Coppins’ “How Mormons Became American” is an excellent read.