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Speaking

WordCamp Montclair: I Just Got This WordPress and Don’t Know How to Use It

June 24, 2023

I got to give my WordPress beginner-focused talk at WordCamp Montclair this weekend, and since I had to cancel last-minute for WordCamp Buffalo, I’m pretty sure this is my first time speaking in front of an…
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Post Status Draft #137

January 19, 2023

I had a great conversation with Cory Miller of Post Status about some of the work I’m doing at Nexcess and how it relates to decentralization and owning your own platform. As always happens when Cory…
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I Just Got This WordPress And Don’t Know How To Use It – Learn WordPress

November 30, 2022

I gave a workshop (more of a talk, really) on what to do when you’ve just been handed the keys to a WordPress site and have never used WordPress before. This session is geared for the…
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Thinking

“What Day Even Is It?” Five, holiday break edition

January 2, 2023

One: Apple Watch with Family Setup This year, the big Christmas gift for our son Charlie was his own Apple Watch, which we’re able to set up to work without a phone via Apple’s Family Setup…
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Friday Five, coasting edition

December 2, 2022

One Somehow I managed to schedule myself a week where I had to record two workshops and a podcast in the span of four days. This was fully accidental. But I think I managed to do…
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Friday Five, Heat Death of Twitter Edition

November 18, 2022

One I was completely ignoring the entire FTX/Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) story until a friend shared a Matt Levine column on it with me, and now I am completely hooked and simply cannot stop reading about it.…
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Reading

Product Sense: A Guide for Effective Decision-Making in Product Management | by Tushar Singh | Your Product Friend | Jun, 2023 | Medium

July 13, 2023

In the journey of your role as a PM, there will inevitably come moments when your team seeks your guidance for critical decision-making. Here lies the defining essence of your greatness: to ensure that each decision…
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Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right

July 12, 2023

You can get yourself to a place where, whatever problem you have, you feel certain that there’s a trick that will solve it. Like work is a giant game of Myst and you just have to…
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How To Understand The Job To Be Done (JTBD) Like A Product Manager | by Ian Khor | Bootcamp

July 12, 2023

One of the biggest reasons for thinking about the customer needs in terms of a ‘job’ — rather than a customer want in terms of ‘benefits’ — is that customers are usually ambiguous and imprecise with…
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Buy It. Don’t Build. Or You May Violate Product Management’s Golden Rule. | by Lee Fischman | Jul, 2023 | Product Coalition

July 12, 2023

Advocating for buying instead of building demands heroism. Read on Product Coalition.
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Making

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