Productivity How I Use a Mind Map to Brainstorm My Best Stories With all the remote work in recent times, I miss the whiteboards sometimes. But honestly, I've always hoped for better virtual whiteboards vs the real thing. I have terrible handwriting.
Product Management The 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 times. Get used to
Product Management Notes on Product Insights Notes on Chapter 49: Product Insights, from "Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products" by Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group. Goal: Leverage insights on few critical problems to focus on. This
Lessons Learned 5 Things I Learned About The Product Manager Interview Process at Google I interviewed with one of the biggest tech companies in the world. Here's a retrospective and some lessons learned.
Ideas Remembering Google Reader. Reminiscing on a piece of tech that was too powerful to remain free.
Data Science Notes on Amazon's AWS Cloud Data Services - Part 1 As a Product Manager, 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 investing in modern cloud solutions?
Data Science A framework and process for exploring new, unfamiliar data sets, using Python This is an attempt to formalize the processes I use when becoming familiar with a new data set.
Music I'm excited about my new song I just finished working on a new version of one of my songs. I'm excited to share it.
Books What is Multivariate Data Analysis? I am a Tech Product Manager, currently involved in work related to the enablement of data for fact-driven decision making.
Technical 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 my own website, for inspiration. This was
About About This Blog Apologies for the self-indulgence. This is branding. And a bit of storytelling.
Data Science The 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 production and distribution of data insights, the appeal of building a Knowledge Graph is instant.
Product Management Confluence, with Marie Kondo As companies like the one I work for prep for the new fiscal year with a new round of planning, initiatives, and outcomes, I find myself in need of a retrospective.
Product Management Pendomonium 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 can get a lot
Productivity We are all “One-Punch Man” Stories. I explore stories. I’m thinking about One Punch Man after watching a few really great episodes. More specifically, I’m thinking about Saitama, the characters actual name. (So
Productivity Guilts associated with “excuses” are unnecessary–they’re impediments, and they can be dealt with. Inspiration. It’s always there. More often than not, people view things like “procrastination” as a negative. People feel guilty when they’re not productive. There’s a lot to
Product Management Designing a chatbot that communicates using your slang and dialect. 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 visibility when compared to the multitude of loud and popular artists of this day. (No disrespect. I fucking love Billy Eilish’s whole art.)
Technical 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/GovernSecure & Govern, Connect, Ingest, Parse, Extract, Profile, Process, PerformPolyglot
Ideas Uncertainty. Instability. Impermanence. It’s inherent. You start to notice in common things. Your computer crashes, for example. Or your “check engine” light turns on. Or, it doesn’t need to be technical: you need new
Ideas On quantum entangled particles that seem to “communicate” faster than the speed of light Einstein’s intuition kept him from fully embracing some of the discoveries of quantum mechanics. He called it “spooky action at a distance.” But time and time again, the predicitions of Quantum Mechanics proves to be infallible. But maybe, that’s not good enough.
Music Notes on Hans Zimmer’s Masterclass on Film Scoring - Day One I signed up for Hans Zimmer’s film scoring MasterClass series. I signed up because I would genuinely love to score music for a video game, trailer, commercial, film, etc.
Music “Dimensions: We Search” An instrumental musical improvisation and poetry about Data Science This song is about making discoveries. Searching. Finding new ways to look at data. Interpretations. With constraints. Yet limitless. “Like early mining and the discovery of a small vein. You
Music Music For A Quantum Nightmare In recent years, I’ve found myself fascinated by the sciences that I didn’t have the opportunity to learn and experience back when I was in school and university
Music My Music: Winter Improv 2019 This isn’t the most fluid improvisation piece. It’s often difficult to get in a comfortable place. It’s more of a self-conscious + carefully-courteous thing, in that I don’
