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More on the Facebook Social Contagion Study

There are thousands of news stories every day. More than any news publication or news hour could possibly cover. Car crashes, robberies, heroic feats, international skirmishes, sporting events, political battles, traffic jams, fires, weather reports, personal interest stories. The list is infinite. Every day, editors curate which stories are worthy

What's the Controversy Over the Facebook Social Contagion Study?

A lot of people are up in arms about a research study that was published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). I’m talking about the Facebook social contagion study. But Facebook didn’t do anything wrong. And neither did PNAS by

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

If You Don’t Get This One Thing Right, All Your Product Research and Experiments Won’t Matter.

The report is wrong. This was the last thing I wanted to hear. It was March or April of 2013. We had launched Explore at AfterCollege a couple of months earlier. In the past week, we had circulated and celebrated a report that indicated that Explore (our new product) was

How to Cultivate Curiosity and Build Better Products

Imagine you are sitting in a meeting. You are in the middle of a heated debate with your head of sales. A customer is adamant they need a feature in order to renew. It’s a big account. The sales team needs the renewal to hit their quarter goal. You

How to Develop Product Expertise

How do you evaluate how someone will contribute to a product team? How do you develop your own skills to ensure that you are contributing the most to your product team? Whether you are looking to hire someone or you are looking to improve your own skills, I see people

The Challenges of Releasing Early and Often

Have you ever rolled out a major product change while one of your sales reps was demo’ing your product to a prospect? I have. It wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t a small change. It was a new home page, completely new positioning, new branding. A whole new identity.