Product Management and some other odd things
Some reading recommendations assembled with the help of my now 12 year old son (in no particular order). Who Let the Gods Out by Maz Evans Some very funny modern myths populated by the very human Greek gods. The main character, a boy and young carer, has to find his way around through the chaos. […]
Product at Heart 2025 offered diverse perspectives on the AI era we’re experiencing – from practical frameworks for prioritisation to transformational strategy. Once the videos come out, I’ll pop back and link those. Henrik Kniberg positioned AI agents as “permanent interns”, capable but fallible tools that need structured environments, human feedback, and shared spaces to […]
April 2025 edition, with recipe recommendations. The wonderful Nigella Lawson’s “Old-Fashioned Sandwich Loaf” from her book “Cook Eat Repeat”. She gives the option of spoilt milk or yogurt, and as we’ve usually got Greek yogurt remains around I am using that. I can’t stop baking this loaf, just made some last night. The woods round […]
Feedback is a gift. And feedback from customers is the best gift of all. At Automattic in the enterprise B2B division we wanted to increase the amount of feedback we received. We then wanted to make sure our teams were reacting to that feedback… celebrating, discussing, reprioritising. For our product we had fewer high value […]
This Peak District plane crash site features in the excellent latest Rivers of London novel, “Amongst Our Weapons” by Ben Aaronovitch. It crossed my Instagram feed a week or so ago, and then after I started planning the walk I saw Manchester Finest had written up a walk, Bleaklow: Downed Warplanes, UFO Moorlands, and a […]
Walked this on 7 July, with a friend. It’s been about ten years since the last time I was up here. It’s a lovely walk: a steep climb at the start, but then you just bimble around from view to view on the (mostly) flat top. The walk is from “The Pennine Divide” by Andrew […]
I decided to do this one yesterday, on the hottest day of the year so far. Perhaps not my most sensible decision. I further decided to take in a bit of Froggat Edge, so I could check out the stone circle, rather than sticking to cooler woodland paths! A fine walk, nonetheless. Padley Gorge is […]
My walk on 7 June roughly followed Northern Stroll’s route. While I was walking I kept crossing paths with a school group, and overheard the teacher telling them about the wallaby sightings in the woods and up on the roaches, you can read about this story (legend?) in “the English moor where wallabies roam“. Apparently […]
When I’ve pulled some data into Google Sheets I often want a way to quickly chart the count of something, maybe it’s support tickets and I want to chart the incidence of particular tags or count tickets for each customer. In this situation I want a nice neat chart showing from ordered data. Let’s say […]
I did this walk some years back and don’t remember it particularly fondly, but today it was just beautiful. The light was a low, golden, winter sunshine, and everything looked magical. Next time I do this walk, where I turn up north towards Harridge Pike I’ll try the west side of Dry Clough rather than […]