I write primarily about tech products and the craft that goes into building them. Sometimes, I will indulge myself and think aloud here.
By way of work, I build and invest in technology products, and have held various product and engineering leadership roles at Plaid, Twitter, and Amazon.
You can find me on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Sundry writing
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Building Your Own Tools
- Prompt engineering is far from dead
- On Figma
- The business of Business Software
- The wrong lesson from AI not replacing Radiologists
- Sundry reflections on fatherhood
- Unknown Knowns in AI
- How we forgot how to treat scurvy, and other tales
- The main thing about reference checks
- Deterministic vs Non-deterministic products
- What should Tumblr do
- Creating product metrics
- Mentorship and managers
- High output 1-1s
- The Anti Portfolio Theory of product
- On crypto / web3 / web5 / watchamacallit
- Recruiting someone not looking
- The word is not enough
- Making your first PM hire
- Shaping organization culture with Sapir-Whorf
- Onboarding a new PM
- The trope of influence-without-authority
- Headcount cannot ship products
- No going back to the office
- Changing how money works
- Netflix and monoculture
- India through billboards
- Wishes for 2018
- 2017 through the arbitrary
- Chesterton's fence
- On work-life balance
- A changing consumer story in India
- Four lessons from Fred Wilson
- On connection
- Lessons from the Industrial Revolution
- How fast can you make time go
- Virtual reality and bending spoons
- The battle for identity in ad tech
- How to be right often
- Apple should make Android apps
- Android AOSP vs OHA
- Leaderboards in games and classrooms
- Personalizing UI
- Kill all daemon processes
- The crash of gaming
- Creating an in-app monetization plan
- Porous paywalls
- Monetizing digital content
- Coding is the new driving
- Four things missing in my daily reading
- Inefficiencies in a marketplace
- Madness is key