I am going to put more together on this, but if you look at my last post from a while back on using Notion for research, it gives you an idea of my process. It has been refined since that post, and I am starting to lean on Tana more. […]
Product Management
How to make decisions with large groups
One of the things I have learned in my career as a product manager is that you are in positions to make decisions every day. Quite often, these decision are hard, and impact a lot of people. In a simplified world, there are two ways to go about doing this. […]
The auto industry is approaching Car Apps in an interesting way
I saw an article today on Ford and Toyota launching a Consortium to get developers to build on the Smart Device Link (SDL) platform. You can learn more about it on the SDL homepage. The strange thing is, SDL appears to be a declarative way to express your application while […]
Urgent vs. Important work
We have been having this recurring discussion at work lately about the difference between Urgent work vs. Important work. Understand how this fits in your decision making process is key in my view to being productive, yet understanding the proper interruption cycle when things are not going as planned. I […]
How I am using Evernote for Presentations now
OK, when I say now..I mean from now on. I think this is my new found time saver. How may times are you taking notes and working in Evernote, just to turn around and format those notes in Keynote or Powerpoint just to show them to somebody else? […]
Music and technology coming together in a big way for me
Today was my last day at Microsoft. One of many jobs that has shaped my career. I’ve been in the tech space for quite some time now. To be more precise, I have really been focused in mobile for the past 14 years. My life in mobile started out […]
Don’t get religious on your stance for web design
While responsive web design has been around for a while, it really seems like the past 6 months or so it’s bounced back into the spotlight. I have seen a lot of articles talking about the pros and cons of using such approaches. Some of these articles are quite prescriptive […]
The USPS is a business, run it as one
I am annoyed at all the press lately about the USPS and how upside down they are. The government is doing it’s effort to try and turn things around, but in a big typical government fashion. Don’t get me wrong, doing all the assessment of the full operations […]
APAC Mobile Tour Lesson: Don’t do Product Management from your office
I've been spending the past week traveling around meeting with a couple of our customers and a variety of content providers in the APAC region. Keep in mind, I've been involved in the mobile space for over 12 years now.. but even after all the knowledge transfer from co-workers, reading […]
WindowsPhone Omnigraffle Templates
I am working on a project at work going through some product concepts on WindowsPhone, seeing what sort of interesting things I can build. The problem I have had so far is doing mockups. The PSD files Microsoft gives out are not so friendly.. and honestly, I prefer to use […]