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A personal writing space for useful ideas, quiet observations, and the connective tissue between product, data, AI, music, and everyday practice.
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Technology, with the human parts left in.
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Essays and notes, curated from the migration into a cleaner reading surface.
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AI Musings: What Actually Matters
A practical map for making AI useful, governed, and trustworthy inside real teams.
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The Product Manager's Contribution
A reflection on product management through strategy, outcomes, and the craft of deciding what matters.
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ReadExamining one of America's Biggest Fears: TikTok and Data Privacy
A look at TikTok, data privacy, public fear, and the incentives shaping the conversation.
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ReadNotes on Multilingual Parsing and its significance
Notes on language parsing, dependency annotation, and why better structure helps customer feedback analysis.
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What are the latest trends in graph data science?
A survey of graph data science trends and why connected data keeps getting more useful.
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ReadHow do graph databases aid in business process optimization?
How graph databases reveal relationships, bottlenecks, and patterns inside business processes.
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ReadAI Tools and Opportunities in 2023
Notes on AI tools, practical opportunities, and where the technology seemed to be heading.
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ReadWhy do machines hallucinate?
A plain-language exploration of model hallucinations, uncertainty, and why confident mistakes happen.
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Behind the Dial Tone: A Misstep in Musical Dimensions
A personal note on music, creative missteps, and what happens when a sound does not quite land.
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What is a Data Platform and why does it matter?
A practical explanation of data platforms and why they matter for teams trying to make better decisions.
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How to Maintain the Most Quality When Converting WAV to 320+ MP3
A focused technical note on preserving audio quality when converting WAV files to MP3.
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ReadHow I Use a Mind Map to Brainstorm My Best Stories
A look at mind mapping as a way to shape stories, explore ideas, and make thinking visible.
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ReadThe Dark Souls of Product Management
Dark Souls is the name of one of my favorite video game series. It’s known for being brutally difficult. Your character will die. Many, many...
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Notes on Product Insights
Notes on Chapter 49: Product Insights, from " Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products " by Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group....
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5 Things I Learned About The Product Manager Interview Process at Google
Back in November 2019, I had the opportunity to interview with one of the biggest tech companies in the world. Google. The G in FANG. I didn't get...
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Remembering Google Reader.
Just some quick thoughts... A news stream. A news feed. I use Feedly for nearly all my news today. It's an app on my phone and browser that...
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Notes on Amazon's AWS Cloud Data Services - Part 1
The question I'm trying to answer now: If the business were to invest in a classic, Oracle data warehouse, what do we lose STRATEGICALLY by NOT...
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A framework and process for exploring new, unfamiliar data sets, using Python
Picking up from other post on "What is Multivariate Data Analysis"... A quick refresher: Skewedness and Kurtosis Skewedness is a measure of...
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ReadI'm excited about my new song
In recent years, I've enjoyed a few eye-opening, inspiring books, such as " The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos...
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ReadWhat is Multivariate Data Analysis?
Multivariate Data Analysis Designed for graduate-level courses in Marketing Research, Research Design and Data Analysis. This book provides an...
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PageSpeed Insights by Google
I've been spending some time lately in the reporting and analysis of web application speed. Here's a few screenshots the PageSpeed Insights from...
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ReadThe start of a knowledge graph
I’ve been researching the use-cases and technical implementation for Graph Databases lately. As a Product Manager broadly responsible for the...
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ReadConfluence, with Marie Kondo
"Discard everything that does not spark joy." --Marie Kondo As companies like the one I work for prep for the new fiscal year with a new round of...
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ReadPendomonium 2019 Highlights (Pendo User Behavior Analytics Conference)
I had the pleasure of attending Pendo’s yearly user conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. My number 1 take away from this conference, is that we...
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Designing a chatbot that communicates using your slang and dialect.
This post is a seed. As an artist with a need to self-market, I need a way to stay on top of my social media, just to attain any level of...
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Big Data Management with an Intelligent Data Lake
Notes on Informatica Big Data Management with Intelligent Data Lake Deep Dive and Demo Informatica Big Data Management (BDM) Secure/Govern Secure...
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General IT and Technology Consulting
I've been helping people with technology professionally for over 15 years. I was the helpful long-haired computer dude working at Best Buy in...
