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  • Observing System Failures

    Observing System Failures

    The system is down, and half a dozen teams join a Zoom call that stretches over a couple of days and a Slack channel that lasts for weeks. Vendors and integration partners are bridged in and out, executives pop by to see what’s going on, and the hours pass with…

  • Product Management Interview Help

    Product Management Interview Help

    An interview is inherently stressful for a lot of folks, particularly early in career. It’s a short window to talk with a person about changing companies, changing roles, returning to the workforce, starting a career. You might not seal the deal in a given interview, but you can certainly close…

  • Haas Product Con 2024 Review

    Haas Product Con 2024 Review

    This was a 300 person conference put on by the Product Management Club at UC Berkeley’s MBA program. About half students, half professionals (heavy on UCB alumni). I heard of it through Rands Leadership Slack but most people that I talked with heard about it through Lenny’s PM List. I…

  • Small Data 2024 Review

    Small Data 2024 Review

    This week I went to the Small Data conference. It was really interesting, here are some rough notes. Big Data is Not a Number Jordan Tigani, MotherDuckRuns over the history of cloud systems development: horizontal scale instead of vertical scale, tools to manage emergent complexity, frameworks to manage complex tools.…

  • Software Bubbles

    Software Bubbles

    You know what I love about software? For any problem, there’s a solution that will automate doing a half-ass job on the easy parts of the problem, and a bubble based on claims that it will solve the whole problem and a couple of ancillary problems along the way. There’s…