Exploring new ideas and building them into products
During a Saturday grocery trip to Whole Foods, I realized I always search for the same three apps. What if my phone could adapt to context — showing the right apps when I need them, like grocery apps appearing automatically when I walk into the store?
Recently, I finished my first AI sprint—a process where a product manager (me), designer, and developer work together to solve a problem in a week’s time, harnessing AI tools to help with that process. While AI added novelty and a bit of excitement to the process, the things that made it go well had very little to do with AI and everything to do with how good teams work. Trust When we talk about good teams—whether in the product world or with the Golden State Warriors—it starts with trust. P
As I mentioned in my last post, ideas that resonate with you can come from anywhere, and in this case, it came from a conversation with my uncle who used to say, "let the boys in the back room work on it." What he meant was giving your subconscious time to process problems—a practice that has consistently worked for me, especially with complex issues. In our hyper-connected world where immediate responses are expected and "always-on" productivity is praised, we've forgotten one of the most powe
Ideas that resonate with you can come from anywhere and this case it came from a casual listen of a song by Madvillian called “Shadows of Tomorrow”. Typically when I listen to hip-hop It sends me on a journey for what music samples were used but this time it got me curious about the poetry of Sun Ra an eccentric Jazz artist and poet of the 60s-70s who is linked to Afrofuturism. The song was a direct recitation of his poem “Shadow of Tomorrow” over the amazing production of Madlib (1/2 of the Mad
Previously, I created a quiz using product management data to create a quiz, and this worked. It’s been effective, but ChatGPT has allowed us to create custom GPTs since then. So, obviously, I had to try the same thing with this new ChatGPT feature. While I’m a big fan of the Anthropic product Claude, AI, I can’t pass up the opportunity to create a customized version of ChatGPT. Since it was announced, there have been so many custom GPTs made. Some of them are good, some of them bad, but most ar