Writing

I like flying airplanes, and I like product management. Sometimes I write about one, sometimes the other — and sometimes both at the same time.

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  A Surprising Conclusion About the Future of Your Smart Digital Assistants

  A product-design teardown of Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant — and a proposal to make you the teacher of your own AI.

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  7 Product Management Lessons from Learning to Fly

  What flight training taught me about product management: attitude, brevity, stability, and a license to learn.

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  5 More Product Management Lessons from Learning to Fly

  Five more lessons from earning my private pilot certificate — failure as a gift, not fixating, and saying “Unable.”

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  How to Host a Blazing-Fast Portfolio Page in 59 Minutes for Free

  How I replaced a dying WordPress site with a fast, free, responsive portfolio — plus analytics and UTM tracking.

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  Tell Me a Story! (Visualizations)

  Three data visualizations with a great signal-to-noise ratio — Minard's Napoleon march, a Japan earthquake time-lapse, and the Vietnam War Memorial.