It’s December which means it’s time to reflect on the year and look forward to the coming year. Last week, I wrote about my annual retrospective and how I choose priorities for the coming year. Today, I’ll explain how I translate those priorities into goals, design processes to reach those goals, and develop habits to […]
The Ethics of the Data We Collect
Do you remember the uproar about cookies in the late 90s? I don’t mean the sugar-filled kind. I’m talking about web cookies – the bite-sized bits of information that your browser stores locally so that when you return to a website it already knows who you are. If you worked in tech at the time, you […]
Moving Beyond Vanity Metrics: An In-Depth Case Study
It’s one thing to read The Lean Startup and Lean Analytics. It’s another thing entirely to put these principles into practice. It can be a challenge to go from theory to practice. Sure, you might know that vanity metrics should be a thing of the past. But what do you measure instead? Even if you […]
Just Enough Statistics to Get the Product Job Done
Math is hard. I get it. Many of us continue to suffer from the false belief that we are incapable of doing math. I’m going to leave that alone, as this is a product blog and not a blog about the sad state of K-12 education or more specifically STEM education. Don’t worry, I’m not […]
