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Entropy Gonna Get Your Data
Here’s some followup to my Norton’s Law post — Quinn Norton explained “The main thing I’d add, and I should revisit this, is that it’s an expression of not too complex information theory/physics in our current data landscape: information, in all its glorious forms, requires energy, and if it doesn’t get it, it is subject
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Steering from the Engine Room
Let’s say you’re in disagreement with the leaders of your organization. It’s not unusual, especially for a product manager. You’re hired to be independent and creative, but only up to a point. And so a new owner comes in, or a new team, or a new priority… the business wants to do something that you
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When Does Architecture Matter
I’m thinking of two orgs that did cloud by oh shit lift and shift and then rebuilt everything with more cloud-native architectures. The first org planned and executed that rebuild as a company-wide effort. They mandated, “We will all focus all our effort on doing this The Right Way (TM)” and didn’t ship a new feature for
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Security Dependencies
It sucks that this happened. It sucks that there are wildfires too, but we’re too late to change the causes so we live and sometimes die with the results. As with smoky skies and the occasional torching of a community, so with annoying security products and the occasional loss of an organization’s data. Well, we
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Scripted and Off-Book Sales Engineers
I was some form of quota-carrying B2B (business to business) sales engineer for about 12 years, and have worked closely with these field engineers ever since moving into product management. There are many paths to success in the field, and I appreciate the clarity of a compensation plan: you’re either making sales or not. So,
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