Thinking

  • Notes from the Product Management Road

    Notes from the Product Management Road

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    I’m coming up on two years since my role switch to Product Manager, and this second year is when I feel like I’ve finally settled into it and have a sense of how to do it properly. When I was starting to transition to this role, I did a lot of trying to read through…

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  • Housekeeping Notes

    Housekeeping Notes

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    I have re-skinned this here blog because I have had more and more occasions lately to tell people they can find me here, but wasn’t at all happy with how the previous homepage turned out, so was starting to feel actually embarrassed to give people my URL. The new theme is Brian Gardner’s Bright Mode…

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  • A Trip to Athens for WordCamp Europe

    A Trip to Athens for WordCamp Europe

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    One of the perks of my job is that I get to travel to the flagship WordCamps we sponsor. Last year in Porto, even as I was lying in my hotel room with COVID, missing the second day of WCEU 2022, wondering if it had been a mistake to agree to a business trip, when…

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

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

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    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 feature. Charlie is approaching the age when he can and should be given some more independence, like taking the…

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  • Friday Five, coasting edition

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    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 okay. Migrating WordPress Sites to PHP 8 – I did this one with my colleagues from iThemes. I Just…

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  • Friday Five, Heat Death of Twitter Edition

    Friday Five, Heat Death of Twitter Edition

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    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. This guy literally did provide a “balance sheet” to his investors that included a line item called “HIDDEN POORLY…

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  • The Inevitable Mastodon Post

    The Inevitable Mastodon Post

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    If you are as extremely, tragically Online as I am, you’ve been seeing the rapid decline of Twitter as the new management aggressively makes decisions almost as though he is trying to lose $44 billion on purpose. Like many of my fellow Extremely Online people, I’ve started the migration to Mastodon. While I will gleefully…

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  • 44

    44

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    A look back In my last trip around the sun I visited two countries I had never been to before, caught COVID in one of them and had to fend for myself in isolation, launched a product I’m really proud of, identified and (I think) solved some really hard problems, reconnected with some people I…

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  • Friday Five

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    One We went to Barcelona last month and loved it. I studied Spanish to the AP level in high school and what I discovered on this trip is that it’s all still in there, and if I use it, it comes back rapidly. So I’ve dusted off my Duolingo account for some daily practice. But…

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  • Friday Five – Almost Halloween Edition

    Friday Five – Almost Halloween Edition

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    Back when personal blogging was more of a thing, the Friday Five was a place to put shorter thoughts and ideas: things that didn’t rate their own posts. Inspired by my friend and former colleague Chuck Grimmett’s weekly update posts, it seems like a good way to start re-building the blogging muscles. One It’s not…

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