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Oct 23, 2020

Product management lessons learned through King Crimson lyrics

Today, I realized not only does King Crimson's sound echo prodigiously within the discographies of my favorite artists, they've also had a thing or two to say about good (and bad) product management over the decades!

Aug 25, 2020

Making public mistakes & code memes: The origin of my famous Titanic notebook

Yesterday, it was a great honor to be a guest on Nick Wan's data science livestream on Twitch to talk through bad (and less bad) data viz that I've created.

Jun 19, 2020

Be aggressive, be be aggressive. But how aggressive?

This week I asked for feedback on something I wrote from a trusted colleague.

Mar 29, 2020

Kaggle’s 5 remote-first tips for new WFHers

Kaggle is a unique team at Google. Unlike the vast majority of Google teams, our team is fully remote-first and distributed in offices (Google and home) across North America and Australia.

Jan 22, 2020

Productive transparency in online communities: Inspiration from trains and IKEA

The Japanese train system is famously fast, clean, friendly, and efficient. On the drive home from my first day back at Google I was reminded of why.

Dec 6, 2019

Reflections on Stack Overflow: Building Successful Communities

Today is my last day at Stack Overflow. For most of this year, I was the lead product manager for their flagship product, public Q&A.

Dec 6, 2019

My Interview with Superlinguo: Linguists in Careers

This is cross-posted from an interview I recently did with Superlinguo, a language and linguistics blog by Lauren Gawne, for her excellent linguists in careers series.

May 12, 2019

How to Know Nothing

A couple of months ago I started a new job as a product manager at Stack Overflow.

Apr 9, 2019

Product Management as an Episode of Black Mirror

Being a product manager on a small remote, distributed team reminds me a lot of the Black Mirror episode Be Right Back.

Feb 19, 2019

How to Amass Engineering Knowledge as a Product Manager

For about the past two years, I’ve been a product manager at Kaggle where I work on our public data platform as well as (more recently) our Google Cloud Platform integrations team.