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From rickshaws to rural banks: hidden product lessons.
Understanding your users' world can reveal what they really need.
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Will the Apple Vision Pro survive 2025?
Let's dig into the numbers from the past year and see what we can learn as product folks from Apple's rocky journey.
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Are you fulfilled by the work you are doing?
Three questions to ask yourself and how to small changes can make a big impact on your happiness.
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Tap into lessons from paid content creators
Why do some ideas get attention and others don’t? Let's dive into how to use what works in your day-to-day.
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December 2024

Product Party - Year Two in Review
2024 was an amazing year. I share the how we did this year and the goals for 2025.
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In case you didn't know yet - Perplexity AI is awesome
This week, we put a Product Party lens to one of the fastest growing search engines.
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Amazon Alexa: A lesson in product failure.
Build better products by learning from Amazon Alexa's mistakes.
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Podcast Episode 3: Five ways to get work done faster
Click to listen to this week's podcast.
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Five ways to get work done faster
We promise we only use the word "streamlining" once in this post.
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November 2024

Lessons from helping teams do more with less.
Three questions to ask anytime you join a new team/company as a product person.
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Product management + AI (and the illusion of efficiency).
This week: We hit on some of the drawbacks of relying too heavily on AI in your product world.
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Giving back to the community in a "product" kind of way.
This week: I start to explore pro bono consulting for nonprofits and start-ups.
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